Charles Trumbull (b.1943) is an American editor, publisher, and haiku historian and poet. He served as president of the Haiku Society of America and editor of Modern Haiku and is the founding editor of Haikupedia. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This poem comes from Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (Norton, 2013), p.179.

Selected by Amy Frykholm: amy@journeywithjesus.net