' A Christmas Posy is a wonderful collection of haiku. A longing for Christmas is in these pages. We all have our own Christmas memories; the only difference is that it is summer and a kookaburra is laughing as in the song we sang in distant days. However, there may be another aspect to Christmas. Another Christmas story would be in the heart of the reader.' - Toshio Kimura, Professor of English, Nihon University, Tokyo