into the light
of fireflies
the tails of her fish kite
spring desolation
the child’s fish kite
at the bottom of the lake
my mother’s kite
over the barren field
trembles
windless night
carrying the kites home
mother and child
is an Illinois-based poet whose poems have been long-listed for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award. Her work has most recently appeared in Frogpond Journal, Modern Haiku, and First Frost.
