Introduction by the Author
This volume is a retrospective collection, not merely because it includes haiku from the forty or so years during which I have been writing and publishing haiku, but also because it presents the story of my life in haiku. I necessarily look back often in this volume because I cannot tell my story without doing that. No set of haiku can tell a person's complete story. What these haiku do, however, is give readers glimpses of my life: personally significant experiences and people who have been important to me. Rather than focus on questions, I attempt "answers instead," as the title indicates. I hope that these answers about myself will give readers some pleasure.
Preface
black night:
owl questions
under my skin
this autumn
I ask the owl
for its answers instead