window closed,
up to the seventh floor
cascading cries of the cicada

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Abigail Friedman

Abigail Friedman is the author of The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan. She joined the United States Foreign Service in 1988 and has served her country in Washinton, Paris, Tokyo, and the Azores, and most recently as Consul General in Quebec City. She is a member of the Haiku Society of America and Haiku Canada and is a founding member of the bilingual Quebec Haiku Group in Quebec City.

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  1. this haiku looks like stairs and in the middle-line the “seventh floor” is mentioned — i like this idea!

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