In One Breath the Haiku Exhales a Butterfly

hot metallic tears / fall from the morning sky / nations mourn. None of us will forget that infamous day when the space shuttle, Columbia, exploded in mid air. McMane's haiku captures the event poignantly, without being trite, stating how all of us felt in an indelible way. McManes touches upon the plight of the Plains buffalo and how it affected the Native American population with this plaintive haiku: buffalo hooves / a thousand year echo / across the plains.