David LeCount

	after the rain-- milking the wet cow, its body steaming
empty field-- chalked soccer lines whiten the wind
	dusk dimming-- A bat drinks from the pool without a pause of wing
Nasturtium picking For the dinner salad, I tire And think only If the evening were without guests, Or polite words at parting.
	Captured firefly-- a child's fingers hatch the moon
tonight you speak of the full moon in a low voice and coyly twist your hair on an idle finger that hides the grey
eagle dawn-- a rising salmon catches hungry talons	racoon washes the full moon, a single stolen egg
	in this chair I wrote the last words my father ever got

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David LeCount's works have appeared in books and anthologies such as The Haiku Hundred, Haiku Moment, Wind Five Folded, Anthology of Erotic Haiku, and Playing Tag Among Buddhas. He has also had his work published in several dozen poetry journals, both at home and abroad. Mr. LeCount has won more than a few awards for his haiku, has spoken as both a teacher (his supposed profession) and a poet at various conferences and was given the Most Inspirational Teacher Award, by the University of California at Santa Cruz, Kresge College, in June of 1996. He is also an Honorary Fellow at the La Honda Post Office and Safeway in Half Moon Bay. When he isn't teaching or writing he can be found accomplishing any number of things in the style of a true Renaissance Man: tanning hides, cooking, raising livestock, nurturing young animals and people, translating fortune cookie fortunes from Chinese to English and broadcasting humorous email and faxes, possibly all at the same time. He urged the writer of this short bio: "When in doubt, make it up."

But I didn't have to...

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