Shearsman 50
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.
