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 Noir from Eight Shades of Blue



this ancient face
lit by the eyes of a child—
it’s time to shed

                                                                  dug-in in Da Nang—
                                                                  studying history’s
                                                                  most ghastly lessons

                                                                                                                                    zoo mothers
                                                                                                                                    clutch their babies
                                                                                                                                    both sides of bars


from Eight Shades of Blue
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