Daily Haiku #4: Watermelon
a poem about the perfect summer fruit
Drip drip / juices flow
From sweet red flesh to green rind
To dry earth / drip drip
My toddler asks to go to the backyard and play with water: water table, kid pool, a fun little sprinkler with worms that spout water from the tops of their heads. And nearly every time we are out, she asks for watermelon. I think we’ll have to keep watermelon on hand at all times this summer; it’s the perfect summer fruit.
This poem is part of a daily haiku project I started in 2020.
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© Katie Rodante 2020
Katie Rodante is a writer living in sunny Dallas, Texas with her loving husband, two wild young children, and a lazy maltese. While she began her career as a paralegal, she found her passion is in creative fiction. Her works include a poetry book of Halloween haiku titled Autumn Reveries, several short stories, and two in-progress novels: a women’s fiction novel about love and loss, and a fantasy series involving wizards and music.
