Dwarf Stars 2025 - The Best Very Short Speculative Poems Published in 2024

Honoured to have the following work chosen for this anthology of shortlisted poems. My thanks to the editor, Miguel O. Mitchell!

a fawn steps

into the fairy ring . . .

lunar eclipse

The Cicada's Cry, Summer 2024

 

Dwarf Stars 2024 - The Best Very Short Speculative Poems Published in 2023

Honoured to have the following work chosen for this anthology of shortlisted poems. My thanks to the editor, Brittany Hause!

peat fire

the scent markings

of other worlds

Frogpond, Issue 46.3, Autumn 2023

galactic wind the cosmos collides in our garden

Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Members' Haiga Slideshow Celebration, July 2023

Dwarf Stars 2023 - The Best Very Short Speculative Poems Published in 2022

Honoured to have the following kyoka chosen for this anthology of shortlisted poems. My thanks to the editors, David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Miguel O. Mitchell!

a derecho

of misinformation . . .

the world

we inhabit becomes

an alternate reality

Prune Juice (cover) Issue 32, December 2022

 

Dwarf Stars 2022 - The Best Very Short Speculative Poems Published in 2021

Honoured to have the following monoku chosen for this anthology. It is one of 120 works selected from 1,371 qualifying poems. My thanks to the editors, Adele Gardner and Greer Woodward!

theremin the things we conjure out of thin air

(note: this monoku first appeared in the following haiga in Failed Haiku 6:65, 2021)

Dwarf Stars 2021 - The Best Very Short Speculative Poems Published in 2020

winter jasmine

we inhale the scent

of dying stars

The Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Autumn 2020

Dwarf Stars 2020 - The Best Very Short Speculative Poems Published in 2019

Honoured to have the following haiku chosen for this anthology. It is one of 72 works selected from 500 submissions. My thanks to the editor, Robin Mayhall!


bioluminescence
I skip a pebble across
the universe

Seashores, Volume 2, April 2019
1st Place, OtherWordly Intergalactic Haiku Competition, 2019

Dwarf Stars 2017 - The Best Very Short Speculative Poems Published in 2016

our bodies
no more than stardust
we fall
from constellations
and for a moment, shine


Kokako 25, September 2016