after the cold
and on the same day
snowdrops and robins

seasons repeat
we tell the stories
we are given

Published first by Mayfly, 58, Winter 2015.

spruce tree branches
by the windows
each day a painting

WestWard Quarterly, Winter 2021

music and rest
sun fills the daffodils
by the window

early morning
light on an old painting
in a new place

by Ellen Grace Olinger

hedgerow: a journal of small poems
 #136, 2021
edited by Caroline Skanne

Reprinted at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog

January thaw . . .
letting go
of old heartaches

Ellen Grace Olinger

From the book, A Splash of Water: Haiku Society of America 2015 Members’ Anthology, edited by Catherine J.S. Lee.