early morning
light on an old painting
in a new place
by Ellen Grace Olinger
Published by hedgerow: a journal of small poems, #136, 2021, edited by Caroline Skanne. Reprinted at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.

early morning
light on an old painting
in a new place
by Ellen Grace Olinger
Published by hedgerow: a journal of small poems, #136, 2021, edited by Caroline Skanne. Reprinted at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.



good to create
when we can
sometimes more
sometimes less
every year different

poems we read
again and again
washing an old plate
the pattern still new

winter soon
plans to read
and write poetry

holiday lights
on the mantel
moments of grace
Ellen Grace Olinger, USA
Scarlet Dragonfly Journal
A Daily Journal of Japanese Short-Form Poetry
Editor Kathleen Trocmet
My haiku was published on November 20, 2022.
