Congratulations to Jim Kacian (f/k/a‘s very first Honored
Guest Poet and godfather), whose poem was recently
awarded 2nd place in the Haiku Society of America’s
unpublish haiku. Here’s jim’s haiku — a great example
that fewer (syllables and lines) can be more:
gunshot the length of the lake
Serendipity Alert: I literally just went downstairs and found the newest
in my mailbox — the most-anticipated annual anthology by many haiku
lovers, including myself. Jim Kacian is the editor and publisher of
and much praise, for assembling “each year the finest haiku and re-
lated forms published around the world in English.”
The ten co-editors who helped Jim select the poems included in RMA
2005, selected three of Master Kacian’s poems, and here are two
excellent one-liners:
flurries after our argument the need to tell you
the voices I hear aren’t talking to me spring twilight
Let’s celebrate with a few more
haiku from Jim:
a cow comes
out of the barn
half hay
sharp wind
the metal gate bangs shut
bangs shut
three-quarter moon–
imagining she can feel it
move inside her
“moonWaneCres”
the lake laps
all night the same
quiet thoughts
p.s. You can find a Red Moon Press order form here.
