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ICE HAIKU

by 
Benedette Palazzola


when the roads were black
with ice my solar plexus
ached with that absence
 
white knuckles on the
wheel the driving force behind
reawakened will
 
help me will. i’m cold
as a stone madonna with
a chipped face, out there
 

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Benedette Palazzola has published free verse and her own version of haiku in Hanging Loose, POEM, Jewish Literary Journal, Come and Go Literary, Bonsai, Ariel Chart, and elsewhere.
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