three haiku by Carolanna Lisonbee

​Tea Time
the perfect moment
one pot of tea, two teacups,
and a rose garden

First Song
a startling sound
robins sing to fading stars
just before dawn breaks

Gibbous
a separate thing
far above this wilting world
the half-melted moon


Carolanna Lisonbee is a writer, English teacher, and globetrotting adventuress from Utah. Her first collection of poetry is WISP OF FOG MOMENT. Her poems have been included in the collection TEA-KU: POEMS ABOUT TEA, by Local Gems Press, and her translations of Chinese poetry appear in issue 10.1 of the journal Reliquiae, published by Corbel Stone Press. She posts on Instagram as carolanna_joy_poetry, and writes #ScienceNewsHaikus on Twitter as @carolannajl.