face into the wind
dodging a spider’s loose thread
and its pine needle
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Richard Straw
Richard S. Straw edits technical documents and lives in Cary, North Carolina. He has read, collected, and tried to write haiku, senryu, and haibun since 1966. In the late 1980s, he was the first editor of Pine Needles, the North Carolina Haiku Society's newsletter, which has ceased publication. In 1988, he wrote late afternoon bum, a trifold Haiku Canada Sheet. In 2001, he self-published A Hiker Sees His Shadow, an eight-page chapbook in memory of his father, Walter H. Straw, who died on April 9, 2001. Selections of published haiku available here, courtesy of Dave Russo of the North Carolina Haiku Society; e-mail: rss at nc.rr.com. View all posts by Richard Straw
the wind ~
rustling leaves
spirit of halloween is announced
flipping pages
the dancing words
and page numbers
summer shower
startling thunder –
her towel drops