older now
used books settle
in their new home
by Ellen Grace Olinger
All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku (2019)
Edited by Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press
West Union, WV



older now
used books settle
in their new home
by Ellen Grace Olinger
All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku (2019)
Edited by Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press
West Union, WV



summer to fall
willow branches
in sun and shadow

small steps
one day at a time
sparrows in the yard


older vision
grateful for my chair
by a sunny window

tree with full leaves
providing shade
comfort of faith
Haiku published by Time Of Singing Poetry Journal, Summer 2012.

country cemetery
trumpet vines
growing taller
than the gravestones
My poem was published by Time Of Singing Poetry Journal, Summer 2012.



sometimes when I pray
before a meal, I remember
my grandmother’s prayers
in Swedish, and her voice

