prairie soil-
digging through
the family archives
Author: Chad Lee Robinson
Chad Lee Robinson's haiku and related poetry have appeared in over fifty print and online journals and numerous anthologies. His haiku have won many awards, including a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation, a Modern Haiku Award, a Readers' Choice Poem of the Year Award at The Heron's Nest, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. He is the author of two haiku chapbooks, Pop Bottles (True Vine Press, 2009) and Rope Marks (Snapshot Press, 2012). You can read Rope Marks for free at www.snapshotpress.co.uk/ebooks.htm. A third chapbook, The Deep End of the Sky, won the Turtle Light Press Chapbook Contest in 2014, and will be published by the press in late spring 2015. Follow Chad's blog at http://dakotaku.wordpress.com
tapping trail dust
from the harmonica . . .
twilight stars
no fences . . .
the spirit of a wild horse
in the gusting wind
at
the
deep
end
of
the
sky
prairie
winter stars . . .
the name of my father
of my father’s father
batting cage nets
catching only
the dawn wind