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.
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
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