cherry-petal shells . . .
even the sand crabs live
in that light
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William J. Higginson
William J. Higginson, poet and writing teacher, lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Author, with Penny Harter, of The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku, and author of The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World and Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac, as well as Quantum Spring: Haiku on the Los Alamos Fire (forthcoming); co-translator with Tadashi Kondo of Red Fuji: Selected Haiku of Yatsuka Ishihara and Over the Wave: Selected Haiku of Ritsuo Okada. (buy these books) Also, editor of the "Haiku and Related Forms" pages of the Open Directory. William Higginson's web site Contact: wordfield at att.net View all posts by William J. Higginson
Very Good!!
window pave
a lizard strikes
swallowing a little one alive
among harsh brown leaves
sea grapes …
continuing my walk on the beach
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So many memories…
shells of cherry blossoms covering
the Golden Sand
vibrant red bougainvillea
autumn’s chill —
good to be alive
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