My journey into haiku territory began in
1998, after reading Richard Wright¿s book titled
HAIKU: This Other World, published forty years
after his death. Since that time I have been on a
haiku high.
That initial taste of haiku produced fi ve
haiku books: Like a Flower Blooming (1999), This
Little Island Mine (2000), No Words Has the Rose
(2003), Haiku: This Other Joy (2005), If the Gobi
Tree Could Talk: "A Calabash of Poems" (2007) and
now, Haiku: "A Leaf in the Wind."
While most of the poems in this publication
were written on St. Croix, others were inspired on
visits to New York, Australia, Gibraltar, Greece and
Turkey.