As winter ended in 2014, I began writing haiku. That autumn, I published Sunset Circus, a collection of 150 haiku culled from the few hundred I'd written so far. Shortly thereafter, when the tree through the window turned red, I began calling my haiku Red Leaf Haiku.

This second edition of Sunset Circus preserves the original selection of haiku from the first, and uses the same photograph (which I took in Fort Collins) for the cover art. To this new edition I've added the Red Leaf Haiku moniker, revised the typesetting and design, and made some small edits.

Sunset Circus captures the essence of my early haiku. With this edition, I'm glad to formally add it to the Red Leaf Haiku canon.

John Clark Helzer
May 2019