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old farmhouse
wet snow falls
on the backs of pigs
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sun-bleached cattle bones
a dung beetle burrows
in the midden
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shady forests
swallowed whole by fire
one charred acorn
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waning rose
an ant bears
my burden
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arriving
from the first world
I am an alien
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the sun
never losing its turn—
how sweat feeds rivers
Anna Cates resides in Ohio and teaches in an online M.F.A. in creative writing program. A regular contributor to literary publications, her first full length collection of haiku and other poems, The Meaning of Life, is available at Amazon.com. Anna is also in the Living Haiku Anthology.