Slime trail—
glancing back at
the glinting
Author: Don Wentworth
Don Wentworth is a Pittsburgh-based poet whose work reflects his interest in the revelatory nature of brief, haiku-like moments in everyday life. His poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku, bottle rockets, bear creek haiku and Rolling Stone, as well as a number of anthologies. His first full-length collection, Past All Traps, was published in 2011 by Six Gallery Press and was shortlisted for the Haiku Foundation's 2011 Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. His second full-length book, Yield to the Willow, is forthcoming in 2013 from Six Gallery Press.
The many notes
of the falling rain,
all in tune.
(haiga)
hiding in everything plain sight
finally
the graveyard, too,
abandoned
in the pond
the face of autumn
rippling