# Embered

By [Alex Nova](https://paragraph.com/@alexnova) · 2024-10-03

poem, 2024

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Story: The challenge was to write a hot haiku sequence for a journal submission... so I did. When the other poets read their submissions, I was one of two that didn't write about the "hot" August weather. ![](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/emoji-datasource-apple/img/apple/64/1f642.png)

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