Michael Henry Lee
| longest day of the year a snail’s shadow fills the afternoon |
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| fuchsia dawn through the smoke a raspberry star |
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| rigors of dawn again in the net reap and sew |
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| winter morning light as a feather in the falling snow |
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| windows open now my cat laying on the sill in the hazy moon |
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| parent teacher day the class turtle fends for himself |
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| another morning pink and blue strokes of genius on a broad pallete |
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| ground fog three crows steal a scene from Macbeth |
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| waiting for my cat his conspicuous absence proves the most difficult |
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| shortest day of the year the peculiar voice of each appliance |
All poems copyright by Michael Henry Lee. They may not be used for any purpose without explicit permission.
Some of these poems have been published in Berry Blue Haiku, Icebox, Mainichi Daily News, Haiku News, Word Salad Poetry, Heron’s Nest and the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society anthologies. One poem was honored in the Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest and another in the Weekly Alibi Annual Haiku Contest.