Floating
Dreams, edited by Gary Gay; Two Autumns Press;
available from Haiku Poets of Northern California,
c/o Fay Aoyagi, 930 Pine St., #105, San Francisco,
CA 94108; 2001, 24 pp., paper, $7 ppd.
This
is the twelfth book in the Two Autumns anthologies
series and is marvelously manufactured, beginning with the
cover with its attractive photograph, and continuing with
its well printed three poems to a page on quality paper.
Four poets are represented with twelve poems for each. A
sampling haiku from each:
white
winter sky
a bowl of owl feathers
on the bedside table
Carolyn
Hall
In
deepest winter
I only think about it
a hometown visit
Kiyoko
Tokutomi
the
waitress presents
a special goat cheese
the smell of gym socks.
Paul
0. Williams
awaiting
sunrise
birdsong
colliding with waves
Karina
Young
At
the end of the book are biographies of the poets, who are
distinguished members of the Haiku Poets of Northern California.