Passover week
a mother's gaze lingers
on her firstborn son

spring roads
after a three-day absence
the beloved returns

                                    From the chapbook, sunlit jar.

The poetry on this page is Copyright © 2003 by Carmen Sterba.
Email: sterba@gol.com       City & Country: (USA) / Yokohama, Kanagawa-ken, Japan
Return to the front page of this issue:   Haiku Harvest   Vol. 4, No. 1 - January-February 2003
This webpage is Copyright © 2003 by Denis M. Garrison.