• Three Haiku

    Luann Landon

    Winter 2020






    We will be buried
    side by side—
    forever not touching






    Luann Landon is the author of Dinner at Miss Lady's, a memoir-cookbook; and of South Bound, a collection of narrative poems. Her book of haiku, Spider Shallow Coral Bells, will be published in 2020. She lives in Sewanee, Tennessee. 

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