What I offer here are poems that were written according to the determinants of the haiku form as I have understood them: poems based on Japanese models, given in a single stanza, with less than twenty syllables, that intensify and exalt experience, whether actual or imaginative. The poems aim at an openness that is a traditional characteristic of the genre, openings that invite the reader to participate in the pleasures of the creative experience. They are informed by a sense of the human and the natural as being mutually reflective and interdependent. |