Haiku--By Robert Epstein--United States

empty sky
she packs the muse
moving day
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August night
I worm my way
into a poem
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Labor Day
her dad’s goes to wonderland
not heaven
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Labor Day
I feel like Exhibit A
at the zombie zoo
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yowls I wake up a cat in my dreams
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Robert Epstein is a licensed psychologist who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has edited several anthologies: The Breath of Surrender: A Collection of Recovery-Oriented Haiku; Dreams Wander On: Contemporary Poems of Death Awareness; and The Temple Bell Stops: Contemporary Poems of Grief, Loss and Change; as well as two books of haiku: Checkout Time is Noon: Death Awareness Haiku; and A Walk Around Spring Lake: Haiku.  His most current anthology, The Sacred in Contemporary Haiku, was released in 2014.