Kathy     Lippard Cobb         Vol. 2, No. 2 - Summer 2001

CURRENT ISSUE Haiku Harvest Vol. 2, No. 2 - 2001     These poems are Copyright © 2001 by Kathy Lippard Cobb. E-Mail: Kaat1220@aol.com		frost etched windows -- jazz tunes soften our silence     summer stars -- rise and fall of laughter on the ferris wheel     a light rain falls on the garden swing peach blossoms     strawberry sunrise -- my daydream interrupted with each pancake flip     Pachelbel's Canon through open windows wild orchids     gray sky -- the neighbor's orange tree just beyond reach     salty breeze just me, the seagulls and a summer moon . . .     untended garden -- the scent of honeysuckle clings to my fingers     roadside stand -- a bracelet sparkles among the tomatoes     About the Poet -- Kathy Lippard Cobb resides in Bradenton, Florida, with her best friend Scott and a dog named Benji. She wrote her first haiku in August, 2000 and has since been published in most of the major journals. You may see her work in Heron's Nest, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Paper Wasp, Acorn, Snapshots, Autumn Leaves (online site), Haiku Light (online site), Ku Nouveau (online site), Raw Nervz, Presence, Still, Haiku Headlines and Starfish. Her normal occupation is marketing/management. Her other interests include singing, drawing and writing free style poetry. She has also had some free style poetry published, but haiku is her first love. Kathy attributes most of her haiku success to two editors and the haiku lists. She writes: "Christopher Herold of the Heron's Nest published my first haiku and showed me the basics. Then Ferris Gilli became my editor, and as she will tell you, I bugged her to death with questions. I also give credit to the haiku list people. When I came on the lists, I knew little about haiku. I had a good start, but still had tons of questions. I bugged every veteran whose name I recognized, with every question that popped into my head. I've never been good at following the rules of asking one question here and there. I know that maybe I should have, but to get where I needed to be, I had to get the information, and that meant bugging people. So, I guess I was known as the outspoken new girl on the lists." Copyright © 2001 by Denis M. Garrison.