Haiku by Joyce Joslin Lorenson

milkweed morning
a monarch chooses
the right moment


summer drought
in a handful of soil
stardust


heat pouring
out of the sky
a few wilting birds


wayward wind
wandering tendrils
of the honeysuckle


spring wood
slender spikes of wild
allium inching up

Joyce Joslin Lorenson lives in Rhode Island, grew up on a dairy farm and records the daily happenings in nature around her rural home.  She has been published in several print and electronic journals.