Jim Kacian selected this manuscript from among hundreds to publish at Red Moon Press. He did a beautiful job. I am feeling fortunate and very content.

Seed Kites

“An auspicious Red Moon Debut. . . Read it aloud and it will carry you along like a wind-borne seed.”

                                   —John Stevenson, Managing Editor, THE HERON’S NEST

“Brimming with a love of nature and of life itself. . . David Watts engages the world with a sense of wonder that is both compelling and captivating.”

                        —Susan Antolin, Editor, ACORN

suddenly small

in the south pasture

oceans of sky

summer day

no telling where that fly

just was

A Word about Haiku

In early 2021 I received an unsolicited request from a publishing house that wanted to publish a haiku manuscript of mine. I’d only been writing haiku since the middle of 2020, but I collected some of the 60 haiku that had been published by then in reputable journals, ran the manuscript by some experienced haiku poets and this is the result. DreamTree.

Dream Tree

“The coyote swells to the edge of his wail.”

—“silver moon”

“[Watts] creates juxtapositions that would have been appreciated by the ancient masters of the form,” says Kevin McLaughlin, Editor of BCS Haiku Journal.  “A treasure to read, and read again,” says Robin White, Editor of Akitsu Quarterly.

in my head

the songs he used to sing

my brother's grave

rain over sea

she links her arm

in mine

silver moon

the coyote swells to the edge

of his wail