Best of The Haiku Challenge (June 2024)
Although they are lovely to watch on summer evenings, fireflies have often been associated with melancholy in haiku—either because they evoke feelings of nostalgia for lost childhood or because their intermittent light has the paradoxical effect of making the dark feel even darker. Fireflies are always blinking—and always being swallowed by the night. The winning and honorable mention poems for […]