From Faces and Places
First published in Faces and Places: Huntington Library/Gardens (Burbank, California: The Little Buddha Press, 2019), with photographs and haiku by Don Baird, plus additional haiku by Stephen Bailey, Richard Gilbert, Deborah P Kolodji, Kala Ramesh, Michael Rehling, and Michael Dylan Welch. Each poem appears in the book paired with a photograph. See also my introduction to the book, “New Eyes.”
children stopping
on the garden footbridge—
blossom haze
young leaves—
news today
of the refugees
a padlock
rusted shut—
turning turning
end of chemo . . .
my younger sister
donates her wig
gutter ripples—
a short line
for the ice cream truck
forest shade—
the sermon still
in my ears
noon sun—
the surgeon’s words
still ringing
distant train—
he flicks again
with his gold lighter
the parking meter
flashes red—
a hint of snow
the battery dies
in my mobile phone . . .
chrysanthemum breeze
