haiku--By Robert Epstein--United States

healing mass

in her arms

the sleeping toddler

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jet plane

unseen through gray skies

orphaned

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old haiku journal

the faint smell

of eucalyptus

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hard rain

this time I forgive

the barking dog

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November morning

I see my grandparents

so young on Ellis Island

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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.