hummingbird you lose the point of your story
battered dock
the turtle with a snake
in its mouth
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Under the Basho, 2025
Personal Best
refugee train
small hands starfished
against the glass
1st Place, 2024 Triveni Awards
Author's note:
This poem arose out of my despair at witnessing the plight of the world's displaced children, who are facing traumas not of their own making. Their voices unheard, they used "starfished" hands to silently plead for mercy as the train pulls them away from everything they have ever known. In this instance, I felt that "verbing" was a dynamic and fresh approach not only to convey the shape of hands, but to reference the locomotion techniques of starfish. The children are dissimilar, and yet akin, to starfish. Though unable to regenerate limbs blown off in war, they are ruthlessly uprooted and battered by forces beyond their control.
Haiku
bluebell woods the meandering scent of this river
bouzouki
our wine bottle filled
with wisteria
pawned guitar
someone's initials carved
into the bridge
Postku
pitcher plant drowning in the chalice of doomscrolling
Haiga Gallery
The Haiku Foundation, Juxta 11 - Research and Scholarship in Haiku, December 2025
Grateful to have the following haiku included in the article "A Multitude of Perspectives" by Mary Stevens (a review of "One Thread": Zoka in Contemporary Haiku, by Janice Doppler):
dripping trees
I wait for the right path
to choose me
First Frost, Number 3, Spring 2022
Silver Birch Press, December 2025
Bugs & Insects Series:
dead orchard
the random blue sparks
of woolly aphids
3rd Place, 2018 Irish Haiku Society International Competition
Author's note:
This was written in response to a magical sighting of woolly blue aphids flitting about our campsite. Their iridescent winds and tiny, furry blue bodies make them look like woodland fairies. Those these little creatures are beautiful, they can also be deadly in numbers! this haiku is the title poem of my recent full-length collection, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press, 2024).
Quail Eggs: A Tanka Journal, Issue 3, December 2025
seasons flash by
quicker than lightning
across this lake
the family cottage
falls to rack and ruin
Prune Juice, Issue 47, November 2025
Delighted to have the following work selected by the new editors, Pippa Phillips and Orrin Préjean:
hostas caught on the dilemma of a snail's horns
opening bracket sun dog closing bracket
Presence, Number 83, November 2025
narwhal migration
a child spots
her first unicorn
equinox . . .
when the sun forgets
to shine,
migrating goldfinches
still remember how
Eucalypt, Issue 39, December 2025
sunlight
butters the prairie hills
we gather
to give thanks before
our morning chores
The Pan Haiku Review, Issue 6, Autumn/Winter 2025
Honoured to know that "bluff line" was awarded a Mahō Mention (selected as one of the very best) by the editor, Alan Summers!
bluff line
boys jump into a lake
that isn't there
Mahō Mention
hen harriers
our dancing days
behind us
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, December 2025
Curated by Lavana Kray
December 7, 2025
#FemkuMag, Issue 40, Autumn/Winter 2025
Honoured to be a featured poet in this issue and to be the cover artist!
Femku Features:
bikini wax
the scarlet-thighed dacnis
strikes a pose
Litha bonfire
my flower crown
begins to wilt
childless
our young beans lost
to halo blight
chronic illness the multitudes i once contained
woodland owl saw-whetting the appetite for scandal
if we could
detoxify this world . . .
nettle soup
Cover Haiga
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Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 14, Spicy Ku, December 2025
Translated into Romanian
sumac bush
the berries just ripe
enough
Daily Haiga: An Edited Journal of Traditional and Contemporary Haiga, December 2025
Featured Artist: December 10, 2025
Note: this haiku was first published in Frogpond 48.1, 2025
Creatrix: Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 71, December 2025
washboard road
dust devils on one side
rain on the other
rockfall
a bit of the mountain
in my satchel
Hexagon: Haiku, 2025
My thanks to the editor, Corine Timmer, for including my work in this anthology!
dappled light
a ribbon snake weaves
our shadows together
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 9:1, Autumn/Winter 2025-2026
graveside service
my sister's unmade bed
of snow
The Art of Tanka, Issue 5, Fall/Winter 2025
let us put
this old heartache out
to pasture
have we not tended
to its needs long enough?
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