after the cold
and on the same day
snowdrops and robins




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.
a busy day
followed by
a quiet day
snow on the roof
and seawall