From No Longer Strangers

In 2014, Haiku Northwest published No Longer Strangers, its 25th anniversary anthology, available on Amazon. I did all the layout, design, and text editing, and the book won second place in the 2015 Merit Book Awards sponsored by the Haiku Society of America. Cover and interior artwork by Dejah Léger. The following are my three poems in the book. See the No Longer Strangers page on the Haiku Northwest website. See also “No Longer Strangers by Haiku Northwest” (an interview with me) and “From Glimmering Hour.”

her first report card—

a row of plum trees

beginning to pink

fading light—

I pop a kelp bladder

for my absent son

a change of tides—

the rowboat aground

in a different place