Richard Wright's Haiku
Read a number of these in his lovely book, Haiku: This Other World today as well. I am beginning to think that might be the mark of a true writer, versatility across genres, facility with words first and foremost. Near the end of his life, Wright wrote over 4000 haiku; this collection is the 817 he preferred. This one jumped out—one day I may put it on a memorial stone for Balthazar:
The cat's shining eyes
Are remarkably blue
Beside the jonquils.
