Denis M. Garrison is a poet and editor. His well-received collection of free and formal verse, Sailor in the Rain and Other Poems, is currently in print as are his haiku collections, Hidden River, Eight Shades of Blue, and Fire Blossoms: The Birth of Haiku Noir. Garrison edits the respected journals Modern English Tanka and Ambrosia: Journal of Fine Haiku. He owns and operates the MET Press, a small publishing house specializing in fine verse.
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Haiku from Eight Shades of Blue



sparrows gather
within blue gray smoke
chestnut fragrance

                                                                  a tramp in my field
                                                                  gazes at migrating geese—
                                                                  so homeless and free

                                                                                                                                    bits of trellis
                                                                                                                                    deep within its coils—
                                                                                                                                    grandfather’s vine


from Eight Shades of Blue
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