David E. LeCount

David E LeCount was born in San Diego, California and raised in Mexico, Alaska, China, Massachusetts and various points in between. His love for the Asian world has given birth to a series of award-winning haiku included in his series of poetry books. David and his wife have lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains for nearly forty years on a small farm with horses and geese. Their three sons have shared his love of nature including deer, dogs and apple trees.

David was inspired as well by his neighbor Jim Hackett's haiku. Jim was kind enough to write an Introduction to David's first poetry book La Honda Journal:"LeCount's haiku are indeed poems: he is a skilled and informed poet and as an ardent student of Thoreau, he shares Thoreau's awareness of the Wild. Nature has been a vital part of LeCount's life as the wide variety of his subjects amply testify.[sic]

"LeCount is a wordsmith and his poems, uniformly in three lines, are written with such care that the haiku moment is clearly revealed. This is no misbegotten attempt at minimalism:in these poems the sole emphasis is on the perfect Moment."