Selections from Haiku Moment Memories, 2007; World Outside My Window, 2008; Twinklings, Haiku Reflections, 2008; from Starlight Syllables, 2009.

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How did fireflies choose

This summer night to start their

Blinking yellow lights?

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Child’s summer lantern:

Lightning bugs in a fruit jar

Turning on the switch.

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Calling each by name,

He brings out every star —

Not one is missing.

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Has that rising star

I see again this morning

Traveled ’round the world?

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For a midnight snack,

Two exhibitionist stars

Make a moon sandwich.

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Washed clean by the rain,

The pre-dawn stars shake themselves

And shine with freshness.

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Smoke from a campfire

And smells of breakfast cooking

Drift up to the stars.