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the winter sun
warms her bedclothes –
open window
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rustling leaves
in the bare forest …
unwanted girl
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snowflakes…
ducklings quack
about the lake
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a crow’s feather
turned over by the wind
night glow
*
twilight settles
on the frozen river
her departing call
David He has been working as an advanced English teacher for 35 years in a high school. So far he has had twenty short English stories published in anthologies. In recent years he has had haiku published in magazines like Acorn, The Heron’s Nest, Presence, Rocket bottles, Frogpond, A One Hundred Gouges, Shamrock, First Literary Review-East ， Modern Haiku，Frozen Butterfly and some international magazines. He has also had tanka published in Tanka of America,Skylark, Ribbones and Cattails.