Joy Hewitt Mann       Vol. 2, No. 1 - Spring 2001

CURRENT ISSUE Haiku Harvest Vol.2, No.1 Spring 2001     These poems are Copyright © 2001 by Joy Hewitt Mann. E-Mail: joyhm@ripnet.com		geese above the clouds my youngest child reaches November's last leaf     catching minnows the school boy's best cap inside out     our hands suspended my son counts candles while he blows     no breeze today the moth slow dancing with spider eyes     parking till seven -- street people move their bodies onto warm asphalt     arthritic fingers point to a clump of peonies the weeds bent over     no clouds in the sky the great blue heron stares at water lilies     boys throw stones one angry voice above the song of frogs     squash plant tendrils lift rusting toys to the sun the roof fallen in     the frog singing men in rubber work pants fill in the pond     About the Poet -- Joy Hewitt Mann has been writing poetry and fiction since 1989 when her youngest son started school. She has since had over 400 poems published in magazines such as Amelia, Whetstone and The Malahat Review, and has had haiku -- which she began writing six years ago -- published in such magazines as Cicada, black bough, Modern Haiku, and Japanophile. Joy will have a haiku published in Still, in the U.K., this year. Her first fiction collection, Clinging to Water, was published by Boheme Press, Toronto, Canada, in June 2000. She is also the editor of a bi-monthly writers' newsletter. In 1997 she was awarded the $5,000 Leacock Award for Poetry. Most recently, she received the Acorn-Rukeyser Award and took Third Prize in the Sandburg-Livesay Anthology Competition. After ten years, Joy still stands in awe at the power of writing; how it can change the writer as much as, if not more than, the reader: "I still have no idea where this wonderful gift comes from." When not writing, Joy runs a large junkstore in Spencerville, Ontario, Canada where she lives in an old, stone mill-house with her husband and three children. Copyright © 2001 by Denis M. Garrison.