diver

high diver

at the platform's edge

stillness

First place, Caribbean Kigo Kukai, August 2012. Assigned topic: The Olympic Games

message

My friends, my attempts to visit your blogs recently are often blocked by word verification. If I don't seem to have visited lately, it's not for want of trying.

out

out of the silence

a jet plane drones

into silence

hunter's moon

hunter's moon

an old dog sighs

into sleep

First published in Notes from the Gean

sudden

sudden rain

the homeless man

shares his doorway

First published in Modern Haiku

rust

Rust Belt

an empty house at the end

of autumn

First published in A Hundred Gourds

Moon Viewing Haiku

Dottie, the mascot and editor-in-chief of the Haiku Bandit Society, has determined the three best Moon Viewing Party poems for the month of August, 2012.


I'm honored to announce that this was one of the three. For more details, and to meet Dottie, go to


http://haikubanditsociety.blogspot.com/2012/08/august-2012-dottie-dot-awards.html

summer solitude

nothing between

the moon and me