Any reader who has read Larry Kimmel's, "the necessary fly" or "alone tonight, " will find many old friends in "Collected Haiku 1997 - 2017, " though often in different format. Still, there is a goodly number of haiku that have never been collected until now. "the necessary fly, " will be discontinued by the time this book is published, though "alone tonight" will remain in print, as "alone tonight" has a strong selection of tanka as well as a number of haibun besides the haiku. "Collected Haiku 1997 - 2017" represents all of the haiku that the author wishes to preserve at this time. A kind of twenty year haiku anniversary collection.