dewdrops: Winter Week 10

March 10, 2025March 10, 2025 Trent Thomson

A series of weekly haiku, awakening to the ordinary

daffodil bulbs float
in a bowl by the window
watching the snow fall

ACIE CLARK
Provincetown, MA

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