smile lines
an old farmer’s
roadside pumpkins
Author: Shawn Blair
Shawn Blair’s haiku, haibun and tanka have been published in many fine journals. His work can be found in Red Moon anthologies and he has placed in various contests including those held by Golden Triangle BID, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, and Autumn Moon Haiku Journal. He is a co-host of The Haiku Foundation’s weekly haiku commentary feature, re:Virals, and is a member of the Route 9 Haiku Group with fellow poets Yu Chang, John Stevenson, Tom Clausen, Mary Stevens, Susan Yavaniski, and Ion Codrescu. The Route 9 Haiku Group publishes the biannual print journal Upstate Dim Sum. Shawn lives in upstate New York.
cold night
on the dunes
a book of constellations
errors in the translation winter rain
as old as I
the mirror
desilvering
the lee side
of a wreck
beach roses
small brook . . .
a wren’s beak dips
into the babbling