the old maple
holding its yellow leaves
up to the sun
like schoolchildren's eager raised hands
or mittens ready for snowballs
Dorothy McLaughlin -- DotMcL5862@aol.
com -- lives in Somerset, N.J. Originally from Massachusetts, she
was a social studies teacher and then a part-time substitute. Her
poems have appeared in "Frogpond," "bottle rockets,"
"Modern Haiku," "Paterson Literary Review,"
"Journal of New Jersey Poets," "Edison Literary Review,"
"U.S.1 Worksheets," among others. She was haiku editor
for "Piedmont Literary Review" for 10 years and is a member
of the Haiku Society of America and the Tanka Society of America.
She is a facilitator of a haiku workshop at OLLI-RU (Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute at Rutgers University inNew Jersey).
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