Adelaide B. Shaw

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no mail today   not even a throw away   no market ads with the weekly specials   no appeals from charities   no hearing aid come-ons screaming Important Notice   no catalogs    nothing addressed to recipient     no bills  

blown by the wind
autumn's many colors
delivered to my door

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About the Author

Adelaide B. Shaw lives in Somers, New York.  She has been creating Japanese poetic forms for over fifty years. Her book An Unknown Road won third place in the 2009 HSA Merit Book Awards. It and her other books—Travel Souveniers, The Distance I’ve Come, and Ancient History—are available on Cyberwit and Amazon. http://www.adelaide-whitepetals.blogspot.com.

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