Five Haiku for an Ozark Spring by Ethan McGuire

Tree blossoms, heat breeze,

falling leaves, white water dream—

seasons never fail.

Lumbering storm clouds

rest palms of rain on the earth—

nature breathes anew.

A wrinkling mirror—

grass, dirt, and sky reflected—

I pray to God here.

Blackberry blossoms,

pink-white under bees—

rabbits look up longingly.

Dogwood trees bloom—

blackberries blossom and ripen—

snow melts in hollows.

Ethan McGuire is a healthcare information technology professional and a writer whose essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared in Better than Starbucks, The Dispatch, Emerald Coast Review, Foundling House, The Legend, The New Verse News, and The Poetry Pea, among others. Ethan McGuire lives with his wife and daughter in the Florida Panhandle.