Favorite Haiku:
Low Tide and Making a Wish

low tide—

sand filling

the anemone

Lasceles Abercrombie wrote: “The poet’s business is not to describe things, or to tell us about things, but to create in our minds the very things themselves.” But time like the river is ever in flow, and a haiku poet is expected to show but a glimpse of fleeting life. In the first of these selections, we gain a quick look at a flower-bright polyp before it is glutted and shrouded with sand.

making a wish

on a falling star

no—a satellite

William Higginson wrote of this poem: “In senryu, nature always points back at the human situation.” It offers a lively “Aha!” experience, as the impressions of our peripheral mind so often do.

—H. F. Noyes