dewdrops: Autumn Week 13

December 29, 2025December 25, 2025 Trent Thomson

A series of weekly haiku, awakening to the ordinary

nighttime migrators . . .
reaching my arms up to them
I become all flame

DIANA WOODCOCK
Doha, Qatar

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