Drifting- Sands-Haibun, Issue 16, July 2022

Thrilled to receive two of ten awards for haiku and tanka in the Monuments Contest No. 1, in memory of Rachel Sutcliffe. My thanks to the judges, Richard Grahn and Christopher Seep (who provided his inspiring photographs)!

canyonlands

a meadowlark sings

me out of myself

First Place Haiku

awaiting

rain's unkept promise

crops wither

in the dust of dreams

passed down to me

First Place Tanka

Also delighted that the following haiga was chosen for this issue's cover:

(Note: this haiku received a Haiku Laureate Award in the 2021 Hexapod Contest)

Viewing Stone Association of North America, August 2022

Feature: Poems, Prose, and Paintings

 

Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2022

artificial reef

an eagle ray flies

from room to room

the silk tunnel

of a webspinner . . .

self-isolation

alpine trail

the breath

we give away

 

Stardust Haiku, Issue 67, July 2022

forest meditation

the whispersongs

of Canada jays

Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Issue 4, July 2022

July 27, 2022

 

Presence, Number 73, July 2022

a scavenging of gulls this bickering over the dead

komorebi . . .

you are still with me

in this moment

(note: komorebi - sunlight filtering through trees)

a rusty camper

peeks through barn doors . . .

so many adventures

still waiting for the time

we never seem to have

Haiga in Focus, Issue 52, August 2022

 Curated by Claudia Brefeld

Translated into German

Honoured to have the following haiga selected as the Editor's Choice:

Claudia's Commentary:

The ripe panicle aspires to catch the sun's rays. Is it a sunrise or a sunset in which the grain sways? In the sun and with the sun everything completes. At the same time, holistic thoughts are formed simply and unobtrusively, incorporating a before and after. A large space of reverberation is created, which we can wander through, in which we may lose ourselves without having to feel lost. Nevertheless, melancholy also resonates. It is a contemplation on the quiet tones of life.

Frogpond, Vol. 45, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2022

the sheen

of mermaid's toenails . . .

another oil slick

(note: mermaid's toenails are shiny mollusk shells)

Lineage (a split ku sequence with Christine Villa's work in italics)

family ties

    it always

    winds down to you

    summer river

the horizontal roots

    time capsule

    we pry the lid off

    our youth

of rubber trees

    tire swing

    our laughter brighter

    than the sun

 

Dwarf Stars 2022 - The Very Best Short Speculative Poems Published in 2021

Honoured to have the following monoku chosen for this anthology. It is one of 120 works selected from 1,371 qualifying poems. My thanks to the editors, Adele Gardner and Greer Woodward!

theremin the things we conjure out of thin air

(note: this monoku first appeared in the following haiga in Failed Haiku 6:65, 2021)

Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 7, Issue 80, August 2022

My thanks to Kelly Moyer for selecting the following haiga:

Contemporary Haibun Online, Issue 18.2, August 2022

Haiga Gallery: selected by Ron Moss

Brass Bell, August 2022

Theme: water

calving glacier

i decide when

to let go

(note: this haiku first appeared as a haiga on the cover of Failed Haiku 4:46, 2019)

A Fine Line: The Magazine of the New Zealand Poetry Society, Winter 2022

northern lights

the blur of scarves

as skaters pass

Zatsuei Haiku of Merit

2019 R.H. Blyth Award

longer days . . .

I knight my sister

with an icicle

5th Honourable Mention

2018 Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Competition