the skip of a skipping stone alpine swifts
Author: John Barlow
John Barlow co-edited The New Haiku (2002), and since 2007 has been on the editorial staff of The Red Moon Anthology. Other works he has edited have been honored by the Haiku Society of America and the Poetry Society of America. His own books include Waiting for the Seventh Wave (2006) and (with Matthew Paul) Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku (2008).
through autumn leaves a teal-trailed wake of light