Geppo: The Haiku Work-Study Journal of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Volume XLVI:4, November 2021

August - October 2021

freight train the rags of a vagabond moon

wilted garden

dust sparkles on the wings

of sparrows

rows of maize

we put our affairs

in order

Autumn Challenge Kigo: Persimmons, kaki

nature's almanac

persimmon seeds predict

the weather

Honoured to know that "rows of maize" was included among the favourites of Dojins Randy Brooks and Patricia J. Machmiller!

Geppo: The Haiku Work-Study Journal of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Volume XLVI:3, August 2021

May - July 2021

farm team

blue jeans steal colour

from the sky

you outgrow

your self again . . .

cow parsley

meadowsweet

the deer leave me

one bloom

summer as far

as the eye can see . . .

new horizons

Summer Challenge Kigo: Summer Grass, Summer Grasses, natsugusa ya

the resilience

of summer grasses . . .

prairie hail

Honoured that "meadowsweet" was included among the "Voted Best" (7 or more votes) and chosen for commentary in the subsequent issue:

Dojin's Corner:

The second line, with its multiple readings, is the heart of this haiku. Deer leave one bloom, deer leave me. Deer will eat anything, but they leave one—not some, not a few—one bloom. That solitary bloom reinforces the idea of leaving, of being left. I also admire the sonic qualities of this haiku: the long "e" sounds in "sweet," "deer," and "me," as well as the "m's" in the first and last lines. Also I can't read that first line—"meadowsweet"—without thinking "bittersweet."

—Beverly Acuff Momoi

Oh, spirea or meadowsweet is such a beautiful bush with its long sprays of white flowers. It's hard to imagine the deer ate them all but one? It must be like vanilla ice cream to them—so the name, meadowsweet, appropriately captures its delectability.

—Patricia J. Machmiller

Just one bloom left on the meadowsweet? Since deer have four legs while we have only two, it probably took all of those anti-inflammatory herbal flowers to relieve the deer's joint pain and gout. One bloom will be enough to make a ice cup of meadowsweet tea. Enjoy!

—Emiko Miyashita

Also honoured to know that "meadowsweet" was included among the favourites of Dojins Beverly Acuff Momoi and Patricia J. Machmiller. "Farm team" was included among the favourites of Dojin Emiko Miyashita, and "you outgrow" was included among the favourites of Patricia!

Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem - Summoning the Sky, Issue 2, February 2022

section: "a little birdhouse in your soul"

section: "migrations and destinations"

 

Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2021-2022

the zigzag of brown creepers meandering thoughts

ad astra

taillights on the road

to somewhere

 

The Haiku Foundation, Juxta 6 - Research and Scholarship in Haiku, December 2020

Grateful to have the following haiga included in this issue:

(Note: this haiku received a commendation in the 2018 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest)

 

Visiting the Wind, Haiku Society of America Members' Anthology 2021

rippling waves

you teach me how

to film the wind

Grand Prix

10th Setouchi-Matsuyama International Photo-Haiku Contest

The Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Patricia's Favourites, Summer 2021

My thanks to the editor, Patricia McGuire, for selecting the following poem as one of her favourites from the Poetry Pea Journal, Summer 2021:

cemetery shade

this luminescence

of lilies

 

NeverEnding Story, January 2022

Translated into Chinese by Chen-ou Liu:

alpenglow

a pika gathers stems

of light

Commended

2019 A Little Iris Haiku Contest

Chen-ou Liu's Comments:

Inspiring and evocative L1 sets the scene and mood while the unexpected yet visually fresh and effective image of Ls 2&3, "stems" of "light" enhances the imagistic aspect of this unusual haiku about a rare mountain-dwelling mammal in alpenglow.

 

Kontinuum: kortárs haiku/contemporary haiku, Volume 1, Number 2, January 2022

at sea the albatross of anxiety disorders

dementia she goes off on an (upper) tangent (arc)

polar ice caps

the past has a way

of disappearing

Kokako, Number 35, September 2021

night-dew

raccoons waddle down

the fairway

distant kite surfers . . .

a host of gaudy angels

suspended

between this world

and another

an only child

buries himself in sand

friendly tides

licking traces of salt

from his curled fingers

Hedgerow Poems, Number 137, 2021

windswept hills

foxtails blur the edges

of my sister's grave

dawn light

a stag casts off

its last antler

 

Against the Current: the top 30 contributors of #FemkuMag, Issues 1-30, Moth Orchid Press, 2022

Honoured to have contributed to 30 issues of the groundbreaking #FemkuMag, edited by Lori Minor! The title of this anthology is named after the following poem:

pay equity

she swims against

the current

Other selected work:

poverty we hope the new year will be brighter

inner peace

i offer it

to the world

ripening pear the bruises that never heal

Longlisted

Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems, 2020

hot (fl)ashes the combustibility of womxn's rights

Honourable Mention

Marlene Mountain Memorial Haiku Contest, 2019

Fata Morgana the (in)visibility of my (dis)ability

2nd Place

Marlene Mountain Memorial Haiku Contest, 2021

Longlisted, The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards, 2021

#FemkuMag: haikai poetry by womxn and non-binary folx - Issue 32, January 2022

orbweaver the deconstruction of a lie

wishbones

a dumpster-diver

goes under

cicadas

this

gradual

climb

out

of

poverty

 

Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 7, Issue 74, February 2022

My thanks to the editor, Julie Bloss Kelsey, for selecting the following haiga for this sci-fi edition:

 

Eucalypt, Issue 31, December 2021

we watch

a wolf moon eating clouds

until the blood

of dawn spills across

our upturned faces

 

Brass Bell, February 2022

Theme: one line

winds of change i take refuge inside myself

(note: this monoku first appeared as a haiga in the now-defunct magazine Scryptic 2.2, August 2018)