drought
the rain gauge
two-tenths dust

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Don Miller

Don Miller lives in southern New Mexico, USA. He has been writing tanka since the early 1980s, and has had his tanka, tanka sequences, tanka prose, and other short-form poetry published on a somewhat regular basis in various print and online journals since the early 2000s.

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  1. drought
    the rain gauge
    two-tenths dust

    —Don Miller

    Sometimes a well composed haiku works with close images, close juxtaposition, as this one does. The technical 'two-tenths' dust really lifts this haiku up again.

    Excellently executed haiku.

    warm regards,

    Alan

  2. Excellent haiku, Don

    Spare, and oh so well observed.
    But also optimistic. From the very brevity I have a sense the indomitable type of farmer confronted by such drought. The drought will pass and the crops will return.

    Thanks for sharing this.

    Strider

  3. Beautiful imagery here Don.
    The way the promise of rain has been juxtaposed with dust, is fabulous.

  4. Everything is very open with a clear clarification of the issues. It was definitely informative. Your site is very useful. Many thanks for sharing!

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