Sean Lause    

    Vol. 2, No. 2 - Summer 2001    

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Haiku Harvest
Vol. 2, No. 2 - 2001

   

These poems are
Copyright © 2001
by Sean Lause.

E-Mail: lauses@ltc.tec.oh.us

   

Bach on the radio
a spider weaves her web
with furious joy

   

half a tire
lies grinning in the grass,
no longer driven

   

swift above rooftops
crying for her mate
blue summer evening

   

carefully folding
her boy's used birthday candles
in tissue paper

   

This greeting,
how many miles, tree to tree,
to me?

   

five minutes,
stuck in an elevator,
watching our shoes and watches

   

the crying child
does not hear the willow
whispering to her

   

dark lake,
the only sounds--my breaths--
ducks nibbling the weeds

   

janitor's broom,
the wood worn smooth
near the middle

   

in the new wheelchair
Grandmother adjusts her blanket
across her legs

   

old men on the porch,
deepset eyes and faces creased,
rock the sunset home

   


About the Poet -- Sean Lause lives in Bluffton, Ohio, with his son, Christopher. Lause teaches English at Lima Technical College in Lima, Ohio.


Copyright © 2001 by Denis M. Garrison.

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