City winter:

Dried sidewalk salt

Far from home

Snow whistling

In rows across the road:

My mother’s hair

Oh, its snow

On mountain-ash berries –

Not blossoms at all!

# 1,2,3 in After the Night Rain, Dankworth Publishing, 2014.

#1 in An Anthology of Haiku by the People of the United States and Canada. Japan Air Lines, 1988.