Tabla class
summer rain against
the window

not a word
since our last moonlit kiss
yet autumn...

lamplit snow
pieces of her letter
on the wind

holding
winter moonlight in my hand
length of the night

chasing the wind
on the first day of spring
dragon kite dream

Chen-ou Liu is the author of Ripples from a Splash: A Collection of Haiku Essays with Award-Winning Haiku and Following the Moon to the Maple Land (forthcoming in July).