Haiku-By Kelley White--United States

April snowstorm

pansies wait in the bathtub

before planting.

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barely summer

dandelions

already gone to seed

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Dandelion fluff

and soap bubbles float by—

child’s birthday party.

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huddled tight, cuddled,

two little dogs on the porch,

freezing winter rain

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Lunar new year—

must the wreath and greens

be thrown away?

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Pediatrician Kelley White worked in inner city Philadelphia and now works in rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in journals including Exquisite Corpse, Rattle and JAMA. Her most recent books are Toxic Environment (Boston Poet Press) and Two Birds in Flame (Beech River Books.) She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant.