Haiku--By Kelley White--United States

Lion dance—

grandmother and littlest child

cover their ears.

~ ~ ~

little stray

I will name you

Plum Blossom

~ ~ ~

in dappled sunlight

grasses rise and fall

the fawn’s small breath

~ ~ ~ 

Pediatrician Kelley White worked in inner city Philadelphia and now works in rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in journals including Exquisite Corpse, Rattle and JAMA. Her most recent books are Toxic Environment (Boston Poet Press) and Two Birds in Flame (Beech River Books.) She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant.