Fallen leaves dissolve
beneath winter's smothering
kiss. Seasons' cycle.
Skeletal trees stretch
through morning's fog, desperate
for hint of sun's warmth.
Grey eye of winter
blinks, snowflakes fall at random,
bless the earth like tears.
A.J.
Huffman has published seven solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through
various small presses. She is a Pushcart
Prize nominee, and the winner of the 2012 Promise of Light Haiku Contest. Her poetry, fiction, and haiku have appeared
in hundreds of national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone
Orchard, EgoPHobia, Kritya, and Offerta
Speciale, in which her work appeared in both English and Italian
translation. She is also the founding
editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press. www.kindofahurricanepress.com
nicely done
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