Erin Castaldi

Gentle the Days

                                    It will get better.

                                                      This unrelenting agony.

                                                                        Emotions so close to the surface.

The sun will rise again.

                                    The sun sun will rise again.

                                                      The sun will will will rise again.

                                    The sun will rise rise rise again.

                                                      The sun will rise again again again again.

                                                                               out to dinner
                                                                       the waitress asks me
                                                                                    to smile

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About the Author

Erin Castaldi writes of nature and being a woman & mother with a chronic illness. She won Encircle Publications’ 2022 Chapbook Contest and had a chapbook of haibun poetry published in 2024 by Buttonhook Press. Her work has been translated into Japanese, Croatian, Romanian, Italian, German and Chinese. She’s also edited the Haiku Society of America’s Members’ Anthology 2021.

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