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giant dandelion
just big enough
for three wishes

—Margarita Engle
        

Alpine dandelion has a huge fuzzy seedhead, perfect for wishing...whenever I write 'just enough' haiku, I think of Langston Hughes, who wrote so many haiku in this grateful, yet wistful form.

About the author: Margarita Engle (Englefam at Earthlink.net) is the author, most recently, of The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano (Henry Holt & Co., 2006). Word Wings (Elin Grace Publ.) is a collection of haiku and short poems for children.

She is also the author of two novels as well as shorter works selected for anthologies and literary journals in many countries, in several languages. She has won numerous literary awards.