A Taipei key opened
to Ajax twilight.
I pursued my poem
throughout the night.
Rain tapping on the window…
I gaze upon the ellipses
at the end of the poem;
they speak of falling
into spaces untold, unknown,
and strike me with their longing
Finalist in the 2011 Open Ages Poetry Contest;
Anthologized in Fire and Light
Biting NOT Barking: Gun in the Wildflowers Haiku by William J. Higginson
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*English Original*
a gun in the wildflowers
one young man
more or less
*The Unswept Path: Contemporary American Haiku*, 2005
William J. Higginson
*Chin...
