sakura
we learn the lesson
of resilience
Honourable Mention
Canada
Sunday, November 06, 2022
Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest 2022
14th Contest Selected Haiku Collection
plumes of mist rise
from the whale's blowhole . . .
nuclear threat
cold war
the fallen rank and file
of sunflowers
Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem - As the Now Takes Hold, Issue 5, November 2022
section: loka - tanka challenge
section: comma - micros challenge
Haiku Poet Interviews by Jacob Salzer, November 2022
My thanks to Jacob Salzer for inviting me to participate in his Haiku Poet Interviews Series! The text of the interview can be accessed under the "Articles/About" tab of this blog.
First Frost, #4, Fall 2022
winter doldrums
the garden growing
behind my eyelids
Christmas cactus
the age
i am now
Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2022
elsewhere milkweed floss takes me
cucurbit flute
the melody is all
dad remembers
Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Issue #12, November/December 2022
a tiding of magpies
fallow fields seeded
by the wind
Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 9, November 2022
missing fence
charred trees stitch
the hills together
the wingspan
of a mother's arms . . .
atlas moth
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, October 2022
Curated by Lavana Kray
October 16, 2022
(note: this tanka was first published in Blithe Spirit 29.1, 2019)
Frogpond, Vol. 45, Number 3, Autumn 2022
grasshoppers multiplying in the furrows of father's brow
Honoured to have the following work selected by Charles Trumbull for his essay, "Coyote" from A Field Guide to North American Haiku:
"Coyotes also make short barking sounds:
distant thunder
bred by lightning . . .
a coyote's yip
Kokako 33, September 2020
"Poets also find it pleasant to romanticize the coyote's call and often describe it in the language of music:
barbed wire
the descant of coyotes
verse 5 from "In the Key of Grey" (rengay with Jennifer Hambrick), 2019 San Francisco International Rengay Competition, 3rd Place (tie)"
Horror Senryu Journal, November 2022
devil's urn a squirrel pokes out the pumpkin's eye
ossuary all the bones that don't belong
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, October 2022
Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Featured Artist: October 30, 2022
The Cicada's Cry: A Micro-Zine of Haiku Poetry, Autumn 2022
forest bathing
our toes shrivel
into morels
Cattails, October 2022
shore lunch
we pan-fry fillets
of the past
rift valley
grief pulls us apart
at the seams
a fountain
of white magnolias
spilling rain
my tears salt the words
meant for your eulogy
forests know
how to communicate
in silence
we press our ears against
the loamy earth and listen
Brass Bell, November 2022
Theme: one-line haiku
on the edge of enchantment autumn fog
(note: this haiku first appeared in Otata 36, December 2018)
Better Than Starbucks, Vol. VII, Number IV, November 2022
transience . . .
petal by petal
we let go
Winning Haiku, 2017 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational
fog deepens
the sound of rabbits
nibbling night
Grand Prize, 2016 World Haiku Competition
stone cairns
a faded cap drifts
downriver
1st Place, 2015 Haiku Society of America Harold G. Henderson Awards
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