Lauren Mayhew

shooting star

my wish for

an unhurried life

Heron’s Nest Volume XIII, Number 2: June 2011

beach cottage

the musty smell

of old novels

Heron’s Nest, Volume XIII, Number 4: December 2011

moonless night

the yellow face

of a steeple clock

A Hundred Gourds, 1:2 Spring 2012

starless night

the small comfort

of tree lights

bottle rockets, 14:1, summer 2012

first cold day

the cat kneads

a patch of sunlight

Heron’s Nest, XIV:2, June 2012

first warm day

the hum

of Harleys

Heron’s Nest, XIV:3, September 2012

swing and a miss

the radio announcer’s voice

drowns out the rain

Heron’s Nest, XIV:3, September 2012

city bus

a diversity

of ring tones

Frogpond 35:3, Fall 2012

September dusk

fading light

through monarch wings

bottle rockets #28, Winter 2012

purple hues

in her silver hair

autumn twilight

Modern Haiku 44.1, Winter/Spring 2013

spring breeze

a wisp of hair

escapes her burka

Award Credit: Runner Up, The Haiku Calendar Competition, 2013
Publication Credit:  The Haiku Calendar 2014 (Snapshot Press, 2013

tree lighting…

for a moment

I forget to grieve

Acorn #30, Spring 2013

garage sale

a leaf spins onto

the stack of 45s

Frogpond 36:2, Spring/Summer 2013

Korean market

she gives me my change

with both hands

Prune Juice, Issue 10, July 2013

another bout of his mood swings sand in my flip flops

Bottlerockets, Volume 13, #2