The New HaikuThe following six poems appeared in The New Haiku (Liverpool, United Kingdom: Snapshot Press, 2002). Edited by John Barlow and Martin Lucas, this extensive haiku anthology featured poems published
in Great Britain and Ireland. All of these poems previously appeared in Snapshots, except for “in the burning house,” which appeared in Presence. Modern Haiku called this book “A significant addition to the haiku literature.” after ballet class, first raindrops on the asphalt empty café— he hangs a spoon on the waitress’s nose pulsing in the wiper’s blade the bee’s abdomen first snow . . . the children’s hangers clatter in the closet haiku poet’s new car with a moonroof in the burning house the telephone rings once |