dreams swirl
in a snow globe on the desk…
for a while
I am a child again
and you are shoveling the drive
meditation…
the tea picker’s song
in my cup
country graveyard
a hummingbird
she would’ve loved
were all the cranes
to forsake the temple,
would the shadow
of something you said
still dwell in me?
Darrell Lindsey’s haiku and tanka have won awards in the United States, Japan, Croatia, Bulgaria, Canada, and Romania. He is a Pushcart-Prize nominated poet and the author of Edge Of The Pond ( Popcorn Press, 2012). The book is available at Amazon.com ( including Kindle), BN.com ( Nook Book), and from the publisher at www.popcornpress.com