Linda Robeck         Vol. 2, No. 2 - Summer 2001

CURRENT ISSUE Haiku Harvest Vol. 2, No. 2 - 2001     These poems are Copyright © 2001 by Linda Robeck. E-Mail: lrobeck@thepipeline.net		summer storm thunder follows lightning across the valley     home game moving my chair to the other team's side     deep puddle - camellia petals cupping raindrops     early summer the water still too cold to bear     cold moonlight the sound of her breath from the other room     leaping from my hands my daughter's kite     warm breeze a young sumac fans itself     moving deeper into the woods - barbed wire fence     Tien'anmen square out of the darkness the flutter of kites     just before the wave's slow curl pelicans     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 working full time as a writer, 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.