Richard West
"Richard West" was Regents' Professor of Classics in a large public university and has published numerous books and many articles and poems under his own name or various pen names. He now lives in the Desert Southwest, where he enjoys cooking and attempting to add flavor to his poems.
low tide
the starfish in a
different universe
night snow –
flakes of moonlight
falling from the sky
summer night
fireflies reflecting
the hovering stars
the alchemy of
turning sand into silver
desert moon
misty moon
the white crow with
no one else to love
a raven’s call dissolves in the silence of snow
winter trees
their only leaves
a flock of finches
old forest stump
the space
remembering the tree
cirrus clouds –
stretching the sky
of my mood
a perfect poem
the haiku master
smiles and weeps