The Haiku Foundation: EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2025

Theme: International Year of Glaciers' Preservation

solo hike the chatter marks of glaciers

First Frost, Issue 9, Spring 2025

 

The Haiku Foundation: EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2024

Theme: the latest extravaganza from the heavens

eclipse an otter dives through a ring of fire

Presence, Number 46, October 2016

eclipsenso

Haiku Canada Review, Volume 11, Number 2, October 2017  

The Haiku Foundation: EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2023

Theme: overlap and interaction of commercial and natural worlds

busker's hat

a child offers coins

of dried lunaria

1st Place

2022 Bloodroot Haiku Award

The Haiku Foundation: EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2022

Theme: Rebirth

rosy dawn

our paddles stippled

with petals

Highly Commended

2019 New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition

The Haiku Foundation: EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2021

snowmelt

the wild crocuses

you loved

2nd Place, 2019 Morioka 1st Int'l Haiku Contest

fallow fields a light dusting of snow geese

Mariposa 39, 2018

Shortlisted 2018 Touchstone Awards

longer days

I knight my sister

with an icicle

5th HM, 2018 Robert Spiess Memorial Competition

The Haiku Foundation: EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2020

Theme: Year of the Nurse


last breath . . .
a nurse turns mother
toward the light


empty womb . . .
a nightingale comforts me
through the night


pandemic
the beak she wears
on her mask

Note: during the 17th century plague, doctors wore a beak-like mask which was filled with lavender or other strongly scented substances, which acted somewhat like a respirator.

The Haiku Foundation, EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2019

Theme: Year of Indigenous Languages


open market
we taste the sound
of other languages

The Mamba, Issue 4, 2017


talking drums every song we know by heart

Hedgerow Poems, Issue 121, 2017

The Haiku Foundation, EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2018

Theme:  Year of the Bird


glassy lake
flocks of snow geese
pull up the moon

1st Place, 2017 Autumn Moon Haiku Contest


cormorants . . .
we open our arms
to the sun

3rd Place, 2018 Jane Reichhold International Prize


snowy field
the owls we thought
were stones

Honourable Mention, 2017 9th Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition


last campout . . .
sandhill cranes call down
the northern lights

Honourable Mention, 2017 Robert Spiess Haiku Award


the whistle
of a wood duck . . .
her last breath

Honourable Mention, 2015 Betty Drevniok Award


the curve
of an avocet's bill . . .
sickle moon

Editor's Choice, Cattails (April 2017)


cloudless sky
a pelican's pouch
full of light

Editors' Choices, The Heron's Nest 18.2 (June 2016)

The Haiku Foundation, EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2017

Theme:  Reconciliation


echolocation . . .
the loves we have lost
and found

Zatsuei Haiku of Merit, Vanguard
World Haiku Review, January 2017


mending fences
the scent of sagebrush
on your fingers

Honourable Mention, Shintai
World Haiku Review, June 2016

The Haiku Foundation, EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2016

Theme:  Food Crops


harvest moon . . .
the cat's whiskers sparkle
with grain dust

cattails, January 2014


bumper crop
a grasshopper sky
all that remains

cattails, May 2015


empty chrysalis . . .
the summer snap
of sugar peas

Akitsu Quarterly, Summer 2015


a quiet field
and the loudness
of pumpkins

Prune Juice 14, November 2014

The Haiku Foundation, EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2015

Theme: Light


riding the sway-backed barn setting sun

Frogpond 37:3, Autumn 2014


a dragon kite
carries the sun
in its mouth

Tinywords 15.1, February 2015


moonglow . . .
a thousand jellyfish
in an ocean of sky

Cattails, September 2014