“Beautiful Mother”
A haiku
By Jason Glodowski, Johnathon Lukowski, Justin Schulz, and
Jessica Speth
Beautiful mother
My everything is for you
Forever are loved
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"Phantoms in the Fog"
By Macy Washow
It is an introverted day.
The fog folds in on itself
shrouding the lake with
satiny
silence, erasing the world
but for a few snow-
covered pines,
artistically placed
on a ground, unshaped,
freshly white.
With its complexity
hidden,
I think this a world I can
manage.
I set the shovel by the
door
And pause saving the
purity.
Suddenly a tree vibrates
as redpolls and juncos
compete.
A vole undulates under
the snow, leaving a thin
line.
My dog pounces; his
gigantic
paws and nose carving
snow craters.
Then with the scrape of a
snow plow
the world intrudes; my
illusions
retreat, mere phantoms in
the fog.
"I wrote this poem after one of our recent snow storms. The warm weather that had preceded the snow caused a fog to settle over the lake. It is one of a group of poems I call my Bed to Shower poems. I don’t think I am alone in finding some of the most creative moments occur in the shower. The trick is to hold onto the creative thought long enough to write it down!"
