Linda     Robeck         Vol. 2, No. 1 - Spring 2001

CURRENT ISSUE Haiku Harvest Vol.2, No.1 Spring 2001     These poems are Copyright © 2001 by Linda Robeck. E-Mail: lrobeck@thepipeline.net		before moonrise the distant mountain peak already lit     winter rain the last leaves plug up the downspout     deep shade the tiny hairs on her skin     late night storm lightning in the windows across the street     finding a way into the old stone church morning fog     mountain lake                           See the haiga! rising with my breath to the surface     sunrise mantra the sing-song sound of chickadees     the old argument -- how slowly the drift of the snow     About the Poet -- Linda Robeck has been writing poetry in various forms for as long as she can remember. Intent on becoming a writer, she detoured into aerospace engineering for a few years after the excitement of the Viking landing on Mars in 1976 inspired her to focus on the stars. After two college degrees in Aerospace Engineering, she went to work for NASA. The pinnacle of her "rocket scientist" career involved building the wildly successful Mars Pathfinder spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1997. This brought her aerospace career full circle, back to the landing on Mars that had originally inspired her interest in space. She promptly retired from the space business and moved back home to New England with her husband. Now she works part time from home as a technical writer and technical recruiter so that she can devote half of her time to her original love of writing poetry, writing stories ... or just writing. She's got one novel well under way and her return to poetry has already found her work in publications such as Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Mayfly, Acorn, and others. Copyright © 2001 by Denis M. Garrison.