Poet Profile

Sari Grandstaff

I have appreciated haiku since childhood.

Awards and Other Honors: Work selected for big sky: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2006 (Red Moon Press, 2007); Best Senryu of Autumn 2007 Issue [38:3] of Modern Haiku.

loose change . . .
spray of violets behind
bulletproof glass

cool cloudy morning
dance recital tutu
lies in a heap

hiking up my skirt
I climb the ladder to get
his gardening book

Monday morning
not quite awake
not quite spring

last year’s crumbs
and pencil shavings
fall from the backpack

first snowfall
the bride’s train drifts down
the spiral staircase

Credits: "loose change" - White Lotus 6 (2008); "hiking up my skirt" - Wisteria 12 (2009); "last year’s crumbs" - Frogpond XXIX:1 (2006); "cool cloudy morning" - Mainichi Daily News (May 25, 2009); "Monday morning" - The Nor’ Easter (summer 2006); "first snowfall" - Wisteria 12 (2009).