Creatrix: Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 70, September 2025

food bank

the chipmunk's cheeks

half-full

ice needles

our shoreline pinned

to the lake

Creatrix: Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 69, June 2025

street piano

the pigeon pecks

a few notes

off-grid cabin

we undo the mischief

of mice

leaf shadow

a ladybug loses

one spot

Creatrix: Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 68, March 2025

water spider

it was too cold to swim

anyway

dandelions

a mower interrupts

the dance of bees

Creatrix: Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 67, December 2024

insect hotel

the woodpecker drills

a new window

 

Creatrix: Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 66, September 2024

tide pool

an oystercatcher

pinches the sun

geyser steam

the vanishing act

of wild buffalo

Creatrix: Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 65, June 2024

burrowing owl

some days can be

like that

waterfall

the bones in my ears

begin to vibrate

Creatrix: Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 64, March 2024

out-breath

a child catches it

in her mittens

frosted tent

our socks stand up

by themselves

ice storm

the rose hips preserved

for another day

 

Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 63, December 2023

half-light

the rooster decides

not to wait

ancestral farm

a sapling takes hold

of the roofline

drought

wheatfields withhold

their promise

barn doors

swallow nestlings open

their beaks

widowhood

the love-in-a-mist

gone to seed

Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 62, September 2023

buckskin chaps

he learns to live life

on the fringes

open range

thistles grow through

a cowboy's hat

Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 61, June 2023

muggy day

one cloud stalled

between oaks

polar fleece

I upload my breath

to the cloud

 

Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 60, March 2023

faded trail marker

pheasant tracks point

the way

school bell

coyote pups tumble

out of their den

 

Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 59, December 2022

glass puddle

the last journey

of this feather

receding tide

the sea takes back

bits of itself

Creatrix Haiku Prize, 2022

My thanks to Gary De Piazzi and the haiku selectors for choosing the following poem:

heated debate

even the fence

is barbed

1st Prize

2022 Creatrix Haiku Prize

 

Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 58, September 2022

paper boat

a spider sails across

the pond

in memoriam

a drift of shells

at low tide

 

Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 57, June 2022

new playlist

the rhyming songs

of humpbacks

roadkill

our first glimpse

of a bald eagle

 

Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 56, March 2022

trumpeter swans

we hear them before

we see them

heated debate

even the fence

is barbed

 

Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 55, December 2021

laundry day

we learn to wring out

our anger

Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 54, September 2021

hang gliding

the sequential take-off

of fledglings

Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 53, June 2021

barrel wave

the sun's diminishing

point of light

midnight sun

the vocal fingerprints

of wolves

the owl

we nearly saw

lantern light

alms

the lake receives

a pair of swans

waterlines

the stories we find

between

Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 52, March 2021

rainy season

the fringed parasols

of fungi

river stillness

willow branches comb

through my hair