The New Haiku

The New Haiku The 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