2 haiku for Ash Wednesday


ashes to ashes
‘round rosies with the posies
cast east of Eden


Lenten rite with ash
as mortal if devoted
heaven bring us home


c l couch


(first haiku could stand a Works Cited or would it be allusions cited?—I will cite Genesis 3:19, part of the pronouncement of God upon Adam and, as far the new postlapsarian state of things goes, upon all of us)


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