ancient cemetery —
in a leafless tree
a few persimmons
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Charles Trumbull
Charles Trumbull is an editor for Encyclopaedia Britannica and lives in Evanston, Illinois. He has been writing haiku since 1991. He was editor (1996-2002) of the Haiku Society of America Newsletter, president of the HSA in 2004 and 2005, and an organizer of the Haiku North America 1999 conference. He is currently editor of Modern Haiku and proprietor of Deep North Press, a publisher of haiku books. No Web page yet; e-mail: trumbullc at comcast dot net View all posts by Charles Trumbull
burial place:
the dead walk among us
read a novel, lately
late autumn light
dried persimmons darken on the sill
winter’s bitterness
her serving of green persimmons
his lockjaw
A handful
of persimmons…
for the dead souls