restaurant el pescado <br />the smoky cat’s <br />four white gloves <br /> <br />the grimace <br />of the roadside cat <br />its last <br /> <br />front garden <br />mottled in shade <br />a tortoiseshell cat <br /> <br />origami frog <br />she flips it across <br />the book on cats <br /> <br />open window <br />the cat dozes <br />half in half out <br /> <br />chiaroscuro <br />the white cat in deep shade <br />curls deeper in <br /> <br />FOR ANSWERS ABOUT HAIKU: <br />click onto Area 17 for useful links to haiku sites around the world including Japan <br />http: //area17.blogspot.com <br /> <br /> <br />CREDITS: <br />'restaurant el pescado' <br />(Blithe Spirit, magazine of the British Haiku Society, June 2004) <br /> <br />'the grimace' <br />(The New Haiku anthology, Snapshot Press,2002, ISBN 1-903543-03-7) <br />(Presence #5, ISSN 1366-5367 U.K. haiku magazine, September 1997) <br /> <br />'front garden' <br />(Presence # 2 May 1996 ISSN 1366-5367 U.K. haiku magazine) <br /> <br />'origami frog' <br />('Haiku Friends' ed. Masaharu Hirata, Osaka, Japan 2003) <br /> <br />'open window' <br />(Raku Teapot: Haiku Book/CD 2003 <br />Raku Teapot Press/White Owl Publishing, California <br />Book: 1-891691-03-1; CD: 1-891691-04-X) <br />(Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar 2002 ISBN 1-903543-05-3) <br />('Iron Book of British Haiku' Iron Press; ISBN: 0906228670 1998,3rd print 2000) <br />(Presence #3, ISSN 1366-5367 U.K. haiku magazine November 1996) <br />(Woodpecker, Holland, ISSN 1384-6094, October 1997) <br /> <br />'front garden' <br />(Presence #2 ISSN 1366-5367 U.K. haiku magazine May 1996) <br /> <br />'chiaroscuro' <br />(Jack Stamm Haiku Award 1999 'Commended') <br />('in a heron’s eye' anthology ISBN 0 9577925 0 6 pub. Paper Wasp, Australia)<br /><br />Alan Summers<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cat-linked-haiku/
