Debra     Woolard Bender         Vol. 2, No. 2 - Summer 2001

CURRENT ISSUE Haiku Harvest Vol. 2, No. 2 - 2001     These poems are Copyright © 2001 by Debra Woolard Bender. E-Mail: dmine@mpinet.net		summer solstice the grass reaches new heights     cookie fortune -- a buttercup glows yellow under a young girl's chin     rippled pool the swimmer's shadow propelled through a net of light     how blue the water's surface floating sky     Southern comfort a plopping of fat rain in the dark     fallen hibiscus withered petals dusty with its own pollen     Southern heat magnolias perfume cicada song     One hundred or more perfume a single tree white magnolia     forked roads sunrise leads the traveler's way     treadmill jog raindrops bounce against the window     no skylark to welcome the sun I begin to whistle     oh, mourning dove would you also cry for those stars falling from my jasmine?     this place as the next wandering snail     wearied of words I gaze at wisteria on a broken pine     written in water a river stone gives up my poem to the air     About the Poet -- Debra Woolard Bender lives in Central Florida. Debi is the World Haiku Club Development Advisor and the World Haiku Review Editor-in-Chief. See her wonderful Paper Lanterns website. Copyright © 2001 by Denis M. Garrison.