whetstone
a raven sharpens
its voice
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Triya Mag: Sharad Edition, November/December 2025
Translated into Hindi
Honoured to have the following cherita selected as the Triya Feature!
sorting through
the paint tubes
on my desk
I wonder
what colours my pain
will be today
Cherita Lighthouse Award, The Cherita, Book 94
campfire nights
we ride in on the back
of a song
3rd Place, 2025 New Zealand Poetry Society International Contest
The Wise Owl, October 2025
Daily Verse Feature - thresholds theme
deep time
the heel stone
topples over
double rainbow
our paddles become
soundless
The Haiku Foundation - Haiku for Healing (Google Classroom Update), November 2025
Honoured to have work selected for Geethanjali Rajan's free two-month course in poetry therapy.
..."The Reading list was enriched by the poems that I selected from cattails, where, as the haiku editor, I have been fortunate to read works from around the world. The poets whose poems feature here kindly gave permission for use in this class. These poems are examples of writing that embodies close observation, mindfulness and honest articulation of a moment..."
nurses move her
to a private room . . .
blackthorn winter
cattails, April 2025
Suspect Device Punkzine, Number 17, October 2025
Turning Japanese: On the Road
My thanks to the editor, Tim Gardiner, for nominating the following poem for a Touchstone Award:
map turtle
we follow until
we get there
Ribbons, Volume 21, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2025
Honoured to have the following tanka selected by Jim Chessing for his article, "How Tanka Mean—Some Thoughts on Content and Form: Part 2":
a raven
believed it could fly
through me
unaware that I am glass,
pretending to be sky
3rd Place, 2020 San Francisco International Tanka Competition
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, November 2025
Curated by Lavana Kray
November 6, 2025
(Note: this haiga was first published in colour in Haiga in Focus 77, Dec/2024)
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, October 2025
Curated by Lavana Kray
October 19, 2025
(Note: this tanka first appeared in Ribbons 21.1, Spring/Summer 2025)
New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition, 2024
There are Rabbits Here - NZPS Poetry Anthology 2024
My thanks to Scott Mason, the judge of this contest, and to the editor, Jackson McCarthy, for including this poem:
campfire nights
we ride in on the back
of a song
3rd Place
Ginkgo Gold, Haiku Society of America Members' Anthology 2025
refugee train
small hands starfished
against the glass
1st Place
2024 Triveni Haiku Awards
Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - November 2025
Word and Image Feature: November 3, 2025
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, November 2025
Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Featured Artist: November 11, 2025
(note: this haiku first appeared in Folk Ku 4, Nov/Dec 2024)
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, October 2025
Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Featured Artist: October 25, 2025
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