Marc Thompson marc.thompson@worldnet.att.net English www.mnartists.org/?loc_name=viewartistfeature&artistid=2058 United States Marc Thompson lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the north central US - which is best known for warm people and cold winters. He published his first haiku in 1991 and has since appeared in journals in the US, Canada, England, Australia, and Japan. When he is not writing poetry he enjoys bicycling through the countryside with his wife, Deborah Manning.

the crab boat we saw last summer still for sale	alone . . . standing in the mirror touching the lump
your hand warm against my back . . . tundra	the deer in the median strip covered with leaves
house guests - putting the plain white sheets on our bed	millennium eve deep in the Everglades alligators sleep
a small white church at the highway stoplight evening rain	the last waterfall we talk again of children
the smell of manure in a neighbor's field . . . home	two boys throw rocks at a billboard withered corn