castings
the
raised
shadows
of
my
scars
longer days
I knight my sister
with an icicle
Fifth Honourable Mention
Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award Competition for 2018
Judge's Comments:
A sense of delight pervades this haiku. The days are growing longer, but the ice hasn't melted yet. Here two children are playing outside, and one of them "knights" the other, using an icicle like a sword to invest a "knighthood" upon the other. Just as the "longer days" tell us that spring is coming, so too does this poem's playful and imaginative zeal. This poem, as with all good haiku, lets things become what they are, and as readers we join the celebration.
—Michael Dylan Welch
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