a gun in the wildflowers
one young man
more or less
Author: William J. Higginson
William J. Higginson, poet and writing teacher, lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Author, with Penny Harter, of The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku, and author of The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World and Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac, as well as Quantum Spring: Haiku on the Los Alamos Fire (forthcoming); co-translator with Tadashi Kondo of Red Fuji: Selected Haiku of Yatsuka Ishihara and Over the Wave: Selected Haiku of Ritsuo Okada. (buy these books) Also, editor of the "Haiku and Related Forms" pages of the Open Directory.
William Higginson's web site
Contact: wordfield at att.net
withering lilacs
and the scent of some body’s
old clothes
cherry-petal shells . . .
even the sand crabs live
in that light
almost a Harvest Moon
this disk over the bloody mountains’
late-winter white