Espresso

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

☕️🍂Clutching blankets tight

Doomscrolling and espresso

Looking for comfort🍂☕️

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Honey

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Flowers unburdened

Pollen count catastrophic

Try local honey🍂

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Smols

 🍂birds thrown in storms🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Beautiful but concerning sky trash🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Discombobulated ship against the tide🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Satire and the damage done🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂A touch spicy out there🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

on March 21, 2026 

Smols

Found

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂🌹Glow of a candle

The thorny rose-vine climbing

Not broken just found🌹🍂

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Morsel

 Smols

🍂A morsel of malarkey🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

on March 14, 2026

Emerald

 🍂emerald leaves –– 

napping in a straw hat 

the lines of his face🍂

It will appear in our first journal of the year, Poetry Pea Journal 1:26, and will also be read on the Poetry Pea podcast on 31st March. I’m very much looking forward to sharing it.

Sunlit Scars

  🍂Too many

Sunlit scars

On busy streets🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello

San Francisco, CA, USA

The April Issue of Sense & Sensibility Haiku Journal is Out!

Posted on March 13, 2026