Ribboned plastic bag
enlaced within an elm tree;
robin weaves her nest.
© Nancy Botta, 2021
Vernal equinox. (hiaku)
Category Archives: haiku
Refuse. (haiku)
burnt leaves and plastic
swallowed by eddies and waves—
our marriage, undone
© Nancy Botta, 2020
Contusion. (haiku)
Blue mottled with black,
thick clouds clot above concrete—
right eye swollen shut.
© Nancy Botta, 2020
when we leave. (haiku)
Thousands of cameras
observe an empty city;
deer gaze at streetlights.
© Nancy Botta, 2020
Bedside. (Haiku)
Atlantic Poetry Challenge: write about something or someone you’ve grown closer to.
Another grey sky
crumbles into dusk edge
night shift nurse’s smile.
© Nancy Botta, 2020
Rusted Honey 