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haiku//december

(the last!) collection of haikus from my December notebook

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26

on reflection, writing lists, and turning twenty-six

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haiku // february

a collection of haikus from my february notebook

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ash wednesday, early

a poem for Ash Wednesday, which occurred this last week, and marks the beginning of Lent, the forty days of fasting before the celebration of Easter, in which we remember, mourn, consider, draw in, and draw near

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haiku//january

a collection of haikus from my january notebook

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i am/you are

I am a child of the maker.

I am an artist, like my maker is.

I am the home of the Spirit, the mystery that lives inside of me that I wish I could figure out.

I am a daughter of a brave woman and a driven

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under the moon

I write to you today on this very second day of February, cocooned under my pink blanket- a favorite hiding place- and sitting on the floor against my childhood bed, watching the branches of my tree outside the window, with it’s baby blossoms, sway back and forth in the wind of what seems like the precursor to the