Gary Hotham

Four Haiku

under glass—
something old
Napoleon owned

the end
of the rainbow vanishes—
the whole sky to deal with

Goethe lived
much of his life near here—
the Buchenwald Memorial

busy morning—
the bottle with the last drop
in the trash

copyright © Gary Hotham, 2002

Gary Hotham is an American poet, now based in Maryland after some years in the UK. His haiku collection Breath Marks was published by Canon Press, Moscow, Idaho in 1999.