HAIKU

Emily Scudder

Basho, you walked and wrote and walked some more thinking of springtime

EMILY SCUDDER is a poet, librarian, and the author of the full-length poetry collection Feeding Time (Pecan Grove Press), and two poetry chapbooks, Natural Instincts and A Change of Pace (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have appeared in Harvard Review, Agni Online, Salamander, New Letters, North Dakota Quarterly and other publications. She holds a Master in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School where she studied world religious traditions and lives in Massachusetts with her family where she enjoys the ocean and writing haiku on a neighborhood bench. Visit her at www.emilyscudder.com