I dry lavender to stash with linen, make lavender jelly, put lavender in
baking, use its oil on my pillow for a good night’s sleep … It not only smells lovely, lavender is useful for so many things …
sunlight
on clean windows –
scent of lavender
lavender
leaves perfume
on my jeans
the linen closet
smells of summer …
sweet dreams
the second haiku was first published in The Amethyst Review
A Summer Father … poems as deceptively simple and cunning as a sniper’s bullet. This book is a Remembrance Day poppy. Dave Margoshes