Featured Artist: September 27, 2026
Note: this haiku was first published in Geppo L:2, 2025
Saturday, October 10, 2026
Creatrix: Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 74, September 2026
father's journal
the torn fringe
of a moth's wing
cave paintings
mustangs give themselves
to the wind
desert mirage
a burrowing owl mimics
the snake's rattle
The Cicada's Cry: A Micro-Zine of Haiku Poetry, Summer 2026
golden sea glass
splashes of light across
a child's face
Blithe Spirit, Volume 36, Number 3, August 2026
river rapids
we make a map
of the water's voice
mollusc trails
the tangle of creases
in father's palms
My thanks to A.A. Marcoff for including the following tanka in his essay, The Nature and History of Tanka:
we zip
our sleeping bags
together
you cradle my body
like a crescent moon
Love, British Haiku Society 30th Anniversary Members' Tanka Anthology 1990-2020
Commentary:
"A poem both intimate and vast as the night sky. Again, that gentle affectionate love, tenderness."
Disability Ways: An Anthology About Disability Gain by d/Deaf and Disabled Writers, Arts Accessibility Network Manitoba, 2026
My thanks to the editors, Diane Driedger and L(ani) Zastre for including my work in this important anthology!
mycelium
entering the woodland
as it enters me,
knurled roots sinking
into moss, lichens, and loam
wearing this empty nest
like a broken crown,
studded with feathers
and eggshell afflictions
breath-bathing between
godly shafts of light,
anointed with the dew
of belongingness
othering here
in this sacred place,
decayed body fruiting
into visibility
Akitsu Quarterly, Fall/Winter 2026
reaped fields standing tall sandhill cranes
mission control
the lead goose give way
to another
torn feedsack
a fox follows
in my footsteps
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