Poem: 3 Haiku at "Haiku Pause"

There are three women whom I'd deem instrumental re: why I write poetry today: Lina Triplett (sp), a Sarah Lawrence student whom I met while working for US PIRG one college summer and who lent me a copy of Anne Sexton's The Death Notebooks; Mare Davis who I met in Portland and who inspired me with her own chapbook Dangerous Kisses, then went on to write the intro for my first collection, Infinity Standing Up; and Resa Alboher, a fellow Hofstra graduate who published some of my early poems in the St. Petersburg Review, an act that led to my most recent collection, Fassbinder: His Movies, My Poems. Resa also recently co-founded Haiku Pause, a poetry substack with Mariya Gusev, which for the last couple of months has been rolling out a series of summer-themed haiga, an artform that combines haiku with visual images. Lucky me, I got to contribute three pieces. (The one above honors the patron saint of summer.) You can see all three haiku at Haiku Pause. Thanks again, Resa.