Augusta and Found Haiku

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An ESME Poetry Showcase Award submission


Augusta

Your black

and white

photo

in a

verdigris frame.

You are seventeen.

Demure

with your hair

swept up.

You gave me

the photo when I was

seventeen.

Now you are gone

and my daughters

are

seventeen.



Found Haiku

My favorite thing

is dancing outside your study

while you write poems