funeral lilies
our hands gilded
with pollen
Delighted to have my work mentioned in the essay "Punctuation Words in English Haiku" by Randy Brooks:
snow stories . . .
the scattered commas
of maple seeds
"As with several contemporary haiku, this one is written with a literary narrator. The narrator is talking about writing or editing "snow stories." Employing a suggested similarity in appearance, we see maple seeds randomly scattered into the snow. They look like commas. Some could take root and grow into future maple trees. The space a comma holds. Could stories grow out of that space? As a long-time writing teacher, I can imagine an alternative reading where the haiku's narrator is a teacher-editor. The students have written snow stories. Some of the students sprinkle commas in randomly because they have no idea how to use commas to create emphasis, dramatic pauses, or other aspects of a good story."
I'm also pleased to say that my work was included among Tom Sacramona's favourites in his review of "It's About Time", the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society's 2022 members' anthology:
meadowsweet
the deer leave me
one bloom
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