2026, Amelia Grace, birthday, Day Book, Haiku, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

root everywhere and thrive: two haiku on my granddaughter’s birthday

8.

oh Equinox baby
you are the earth made
all new: all hope

9.

the best spring flowers
root everywhere and thrive:
hot house buds die

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Mick Parsons
Mick Parsons

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nostalgia radio

6.

so yesterday’s heat
blew into this morning’s chill
March is not done

7.

nostalgia radio
remember when, remember
the morning as it wasn’t

[Day book 2026 // Spring 3.23.26]

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the weeds they kill: haiku

4.

the tiny purple flowers
other equinox children
we both survive

5.

each spring I stand
unequivocally absurd
with the weeds they kill

[Daybook 2026 // Spring 3.21.26

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