dawn chorus starlinging me out of night terrors
Sunday, February 09, 2025
Triveni Haikai India, February 2025
My thanks to Arvinder Kaur for selecting the following tanka for the Triveni Spotlight Feature on the colour "red" on February 7, 2025:
we had almost
forgotten how to smile . . .
a loveliness
of ladybugs spills down
the rotten fencepost
Red Lights, Volume 17.2
Triveni Haikai India: haikuKATHA - unfolding the story within, Issue 39, January 2025
My thanks to the editors for including the following haiga:
Time Haiku, Number 61, February 2025
moon race
a scallop ignites
its rocket
hurricane agate
I cup your hand
around the wind
a groundhog
sees its shadow . . .
showdrops
I hand-stitch
a bereavement quilt
through the night
silver threads unwind
from spools of my tears
Honoured to know that the following work was selected as Best-of-Issue Tanka in Time 60:
paper-thin roses
from your memorial . . .
I crush them
between palms that have
lost the will to pray
The Bamboo Hut, Number 1, February 2025
Thrilled to have the following artworks selected for this issue. My thanks to the editor, Steve Wilkinson!
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, February 2025
Curated by Lavana Kray
February 5, 2025
(note: this haiku received 1st Place in the 2024 Triveni Awards)
Where the Mountains Were: Haiku for the Victims of Hurricane Helene, Cuttlefish Books, January 2025
My thanks to Rowan Beckett Minor and Joshua Gage for selecting the following work:
storm hour
the cliff's face carved
a little deeper
3rd Place, 2020 Irish Haiku Society Int'l Competition
aftermath
we tuck a note inside
the riven oak
Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2020
Laurels: Tanka Society of America Online Journal, Number 3, February 2025
My thanks to guest editor Margaret Tau for including the following tanka for the theme: "choice"!
an orca
backflips near our boat . . .
when was
the last time we tried
to impress each other
Frogpond, Vol. 48, Number 1, Winter 2025
lambing pasture
the aurora escapes
from dad's hands
eulogy
the blur of water
over stones
Blithe Spirit, Volume 35, Number 1, February 2025
deep silence
boulder fields where
the rapids were
windchill factor
a merganser and I
raise our hoods
come for tea . . .
I will treat you
gently,
sprinkling sugar
on your wounds
The Abstractaphy Initiative: aBstractaphy-from the palETTE, journalette 4 - February 1, 2025
Curated by Tish Davis
(note: haiga first published in Human/Kind Journal, November 2020)
A Fine Line: The Magazine of the New Zealand Poetry Society, Summer 2025
Honoured to know that outgoing editor, Gail Ingram, has included the following poem in her Editor's Favourites 2021-2025 feature:
frozen trough
I cup the warm breath
of my horse
1st Place, 2018 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest
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