Under the Basho, 2022

Personal Best

fireflies the synchronicity of it all

1st Place, 2021 Irish Haiku Society International Competition

Tanka

we hang

your threadbare dresses

out to air

the prairie wind waltzes

with you one last time

a meadowlark

spins the morning

into gold . . .

your headstone sinks

deeper every year

I fasten

my broken-down guitar

to the farm gate

nesting bluebirds teach me

an unfamiliar song

Haiku

moon phases the ensō of circular reasoning

fern sori waiting for something more

volcanic glass

the wind combs through

Pele's hair

campfire toast

a female merganser's

cinnamon head

ancient mountains

become one with the night . . .

you reach for my hand

tinted lenses

an invisible rainbow

reveals itself

concrete jungle

the yellow graffiti

of dandelions

the bridge

that is and isn't there . . .

coastal fog

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