MAY HAIKU
by Adelle Foley
Winter may be gone
Maybe time to move on toward
May memorials.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Adelle Foley is a retirement administrator, an arts activist, and a writer of haiku. Her column, “High Street Neighborhood News,” appears monthly in The MacArthur Metro. Her poems have appeared in various magazines, in textbooks, and in Columbia University Press’s internet database, the Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry. Along the Bloodline is her first book-length collection. Beat poet Michael McClure writes, “Adelle Foley’s haikus show us humanity. Their vitality and imagination shine from her compassion; from seeing things as they truly are.” Visit her online at jack-adellefoley.com.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Most of my haiku start life in the margins of The Oakland Tribune as I walk to work.
Silver Birch Press 