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 on Crime



ice storm
the glitter in
a killer’s eye

                                                                  stone still
                                                                  on the church steps—
                                                                  no one’s son

                                                                                                                                    homeless no more—
                                                                                                                                    the soles of his shoes
                                                                                                                                    white with frost


from Fire Blossoms: The Birth of Haiku Noir
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