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21 April 2022Calvin Olsenburied, buries, bury, Calvin Olsen, chocolate, cone, delicious, dessert, eyebrows, food, haiku, ice cream, ice cream cone, parenting, poem, Poetry, rise, sticky Leave a comment

Kid buries her face
In a chocolate ice cream cone—
Sticky eyebrows rise

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29 December 2021Calvin Olsenbase, Calvin Olsen, crust, dessert, haiku, lemon, lemon meringue pie, meringue, ooze, oozing, pie, pie crust, poem, Poetry, stick, sticky, stuck, yellow Leave a comment

Cheap lemon meringue
Pie crust sticks to its base, then
Yellow ooze oozes

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27 March 2021Calvin Olsenbreak, breaking, COVID-19, haiku, laughing, laughter, pandemic, poem, Poetry, Snow, snowballs, social distancing, sticking, sticky, year Leave a comment

The first snow this year
Sticks to itself well—laughter
Breaks with the snowballs

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsen5, Christmas, Christmas tree, COVID-19, five, haiku, imagination, leaves, Light, pandemic, plants, poem, Poetry, sap, social distancing, sticky, thumb, tree sap, Trees, weight Leave a comment

Five-foot Christmas tree
Lighter than I’d imagined
Leaves sap on my thumb

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsencaramel corn, cooking, COVID-19, cups, fade, faded, haiku, kitchen, liquid, marks, measuring, measuring cup, pandemic, poem, Poetry, popcorn, social distancing, sticks, sticky Leave a comment

Caramel corn sticks to
This liquid measuring cup’s
Faded volume marks

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17 July 2020Calvin OlsenCalvin Olsen, COVID-19, creosote, haiku, heat, leaching, poem, Poetry, railroad, railroad ties, shoes, social distancing, soles, stick, sticky, tie, warm Leave a comment

Creosote leaching
From railroad ties in the heat
Sticks to our warm soles

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1 October 2019Calvin Olsenbleeding, blue, C, E, fill, full, haiku, hands, handwriting, ink, note, notes, orange, pen, poem, Poetry, sticky, sticky note, writing Leave a comment

Orange sticky note
Fills with blue ink—E’s & C’s
Bleed onto my hand

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11 June 2019Calvin Olsenberries, cone, delicious, haiku, heat, hot, ice cream, ice cream cone, pink, poem, Poetry, pool, run, running, side, sticky, strawberry, Summer Leave a comment

Strawberry ice cream
Runs down the side of its cone:
Pink pool of sticky

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18 January 2019Calvin Olsenfloor, haiku, hardwood, lacquer, poem, Poetry, shoes, sticky, Wood, YMCA Leave a comment

The YMCA’s
Newly-lacquered hardwood floors
Keep my soles in place

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23 October 2018Calvin Olsenbaby, cake, chocolate, chocolate cake, crumb trail, crumbs, delicious, dessert, fingers, food, frosting, haiku, hands, marks, poem, Poetry, sticky, tiny, trail, white Leave a comment

Chocolate cake crumb trail
Finger marks in white frosting
Tiny sticky hand

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