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.

Slime trail— glancing back at the glinting

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