Bellevue, Washington
Dave Baldwin has spent most of the last 35 years as a technical editor, and is coming to haiku-writing late in life. He is the former president of the Oregon Haiku and Tanka Society. In 2009, Dave served as the secretary for the Haiku Society of America.
Oregon fog
rumors
of mountains
the hard-breathing trout
explaining death
to a child
summer heat
coming all this distance to find
nothing but distance
Taps . . .
the widow folds her life
and puts it away
restless ducks
fly south
fly north