old friends–
I add more sugar
to the tea cups

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David He has been working as an advanced English teacher for 35 years in a high school. So far he has had twenty short English stories published in anthologies. In recent years he has had haiku published in magazines like Acorn, The Heron’s Nest, Presence, Rocket bottles, Frogpond, A One Hundred Gouges, Shamrock, First Literary Review-East, Modern Haiku, Frozen Butterfly and some international magazines. He has also had tanka published in Tanka of America, Skylark, Ribbones and Cattails. He lives in Gansu Province, China.