Haiku by Kevin Costa

Final Sunset Paints Herself

Train songs — crows calling —

Red Cedar entwines with steel.

Maggie walks through time.

Not Quite Right

Transmission that night—

no mirror, no dust alights.

Huineng hears no form.

Nothing Extra (無事)

no robe, nor bowl—

ordinary mind

functioning

Kevin (KC) Costa reports that all three poems arrived through practice with the Red Cedar Community. Kevin is a retired speech-language pathologist and longtime Zen practitioner living in Bellingham, Washington. His work has appeared in Frogpond 49.2, the Haiku Society of America’s 2026 Members’ Anthology, and PJCA Islamabad’s 1st International Haiku Anthology 2026, produced in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan in Pakistan