Thursday, August 11, 2022

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