From Montage
The following poems all appeared in Montage: The Book, edited by Allan Burns (Winchester, Virginia: The Haiku Foundation, 2010), after previously appearing together on the Haiku Foundation’s Montage webpage in December 2009. My poems appeared with poems by Randy Brooks and David Cobb in a set referred to as “Halcyon Days” (view PDF file). Editor Allan Burns introduced this collection by saying that “Our featured poets approach this broad, loose theme in a variety of ways, engaging all the senses and evoking idyllic instances of lost time,” and says “Michael Dylan Welch, a prolific haikuist named after Dylan Thomas, founded Press Here and the journal Tundra and coined the immortal term ‘déjà-ku.’” The first three poems previously appeared in The Haiku Anthology, edited by Cor van den Heuvel (Norton, 1999, third edition), and in other publications. The remaining poems first appeared in The Heron’s Nest, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku.
first snow . . .
the children’s hangers
clatter in the closet
paper route
knocking a row of icicles
from the eave
spring breeze—
the pull of her hand
as we near the pet store
crackling beach fire—
we hum in place of words
we can’t recall
wedding reception—
the weight of her bottle
on the lip of my cup
under the afghan—
reading Huck Finn
by penlight
sudden quiet
after the computer power-down . . .
risen moon