Brass Bell, December 2022

Theme: night

under a watchful moon the possibility of fairies

(note: this one-liner first appeared in a haiga in Haigaonline, June 2019)

  

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)

Brass Bell, October 2022

Theme: kitchen haiku

mason jars

a cucumber ribbon curls

around my wrist

Brass Bell, September 2022

Theme: homeplace

saskatchewan plain(s)ongs meadowlarks on my mind

 

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)

Brass Bell, July 2022

Theme: sound/no sound

watersongs the differing frequencies of stones

(note: this monoku first appeared in Otata 25, January 2018)

 

Brass Bell, June 2022

Theme: one-line haiku

meteor gone before i can say it

(note: this monoku first appeared in Otata 42, June 2019)

 

Brass Bell, May 2022

Theme: drinkable haiku

we harvest

a chunk of chaga for tea . . .

vacant bear den

 

Brass Bell, April 2022

 Theme: haiku happiness

sand furrows

new guitar strings imprint

my fingertips

Brass Bell, March 2022

Theme: a haiku celebration of women and girls

ice road

I weave blue ribbons

through mom's hair

 

Brass Bell, February 2022

Theme: one line

winds of change i take refuge inside myself

(note: this monoku first appeared as a haiga in the now-defunct magazine Scryptic 2.2, August 2018)

Brass Bell, October 2021

Theme: numbers

our deaf Dalmatian more than 101 negative spaces

 

Brass Bell, August 2021

Theme: family and friends

tire swing

my sisters push me

into my comfort zone

 

Brass Bell, July 2021

Theme: childhood memories

cumulonimbus

the percussion of hail

against our silos

blistering sun

we wade through a river

of barley

dinner bell

the wind swallows

its sound

Brass Bell, June 2021

Theme: sound / no sound

days shorten

the clatter of dried peas

in a blackened pot

glacial stare the way we retreat into ourselves

distant bark

a murmuration of sheep

moves as one

Brass Bell, May 2021

Theme: edible haiku

garden solitude

only the hidden eyes

of seed potatoes

our neighbour

feeds it while we're gone  . . .

sourdough starter

autumn flames

we gather rose hips

for our muesli

root cellar

the darkness lit

by jelly jars

Brass Bell, April 2021

Theme: haiku happiness

prairie winter

a rainbow of tulips

at the market

country school

tumbleweeds race

us to the bus

 

Brass Bell, March 2021

Theme: haiku about women and girls

vole tracks in snow

the tiny handwriting

of my big sister

 

Brass Bell, February 2021

Theme: colourful haiku

persimmons

golden crowns fill

with snow

 

Brass Bell, January 2021

Theme: haiku about the year 2020

solo hike

I lose track of myself

in the forest