withering lilacs
and the scent of some body’s
old clothes
Published by
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
palm fronds rustle
a walk before sunrise –
spawning fish in the air
Easter Eve –
fresh parfum of lilac
on the old clothes
yellow, hint of blue
cloudy autumn sky, more grey than white
evening thoughts
–
beauty rose
it’s red tints
the pruner’s face
late spring
neighborhood widows
compare poppy blossoms
heavy snow
and the scent of hickory
from henry’s hog smoker
greetings from dixie mr. higginson. if you
ever head to chattanooga, great road food
at couch’s barbque!
cool crispness, in predawn air
smoke in my eyes–
scent of pine