Pamela Miller Ness no email address English no personal web site United States Pamela Miller Ness has published poetry in "American Tanka," "frogpond," "Haiku Canada Newsletter," "Haiku Headlines," "Heron Quarterly," "Hummingbird," "Lilliput Review," "Lynx," "Modern Haiku," "Persimmon, "Raw Nervz," "Acorn," "The Heron's Nest," "bottle rockets," "Snapshots," "South by Southeast," and "Tangled Hair." In addition, her haiku have been selected for inclusion in "The Red Moon Anthology" (1998, 1999, 2000). In addition to many nonhaiku publications, she has published four chapbooks, "driveway from childhood" (Small Poetry Press, Concord, CA 1997), "pink light, sleeping" (Small Poetry Press, Concord, CA 1998), "Alzheimer's Waltz" (Swamp Press, Amherst, MA 1999), and "Like Salt on Sun Spray" (Swamp Press, Amherst, MA 2001, forthcoming). Her affiliation with the Haiku Society of America has included acting as Regional Coordinator, Northeast-Metro Region (1998-2000), Chair, HSA Education Committee (1998 - date), and First Vice President (2001). She is also a charter member of the Tanka Society of America as well as its newsletter editor. She lives in New York City where she is a Middle School Learning Specialist and a 6th grade English teacher and house advisor.

after all these years      ankle deep in the other ocean	after chemo wanting only to read seed catalogues
new year's rain the circles in the puddle widen	warm city wind cherry blossoms filling the potholes
Zen garden a dry leaf sticks in the ripples	late summer children at the beach running backwards
a new year the Buddha's fingertips touch earth	winter dawn emptying the wastebaskets after he leaves
Christmas eve- the row of cut trees no one took home	Christmas eve the carousel animals all motionless