Poetry

Some of my recently published monoku, haiku, senryu, and tanka ...

pebbled shore …

  each stone cast

        tells another story

Nor’easter News, March 2025

a wailing wind swollen with grackles scattered thoughts

Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2025

soft rainfall

baby hummingbirds huddle

in a tulip's bowl

Chrysanthemum, #34, Spring 2025

meandering through forested woods mossy hillocks

    Nor’easter News, February 2025

an ethereal morning

folded in snow…

fishermen rise before dawn

                           Nor’easter News, January 2025

 tamarack bonsai

 the twists and turns

 of my gnarled hands 

Modern Haiku, 56.1

kneeling in silence

before the winter sun

broken bulrushes

Haiku Canada Review, February 2025

empty benches

snow crust covers

yesterday's footprints

whispering pine

the words i don't dare

say aloud 

Failed Haiku, Issue #108, February 2025

first migration she slips away to a home unknown 

                           whiptail: journal of the single-line poem, February 2025

the dip and swoop

of a tufted titmouse

autumn breeze

hedgerow, #147

September garden

tendrils of her story

linger

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Volume 8.1, Autumn / Winter 2024

pelting rain—

thunder careens across

the sunset

cattails: a journal of small poems, Autumn 2024

huddled

in winter light—

midnight’s caw

Nor'easter News, November 2024

Queen's wave

brittle oak leaves swivel

in the morning gust

tinywords, October 23, 2024

shadow & light ...

arms of driftwood embrace

an aster's lilac shadow

Nor'easter News, October 2024

in the bowl of a tulip

I find your kind smile

finding me

CREATION, Word on The Street's 2024 haiku contest anthology

unfolding spring

white pine candles

lighting the trail

The Haiku Foundation, Haiku Dialogue, August 7, 2024

wildflowers ...

the meadow whorls with

ballet movements

Hauling the Tide, Haiku Society of America Members' Anthology, Summer 2024

solstice

a river runs

the length of the sun

sunset swim

the grebes dip their way

through dusk

Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2024

blackbird fledgling

its parents hover

over me

hedgerow: a journal of small poems, #146, Summer 2024

her cartwheels

slicing through sunlight

mid-summer morning

Failed Haiku, Issue 100, June 2024

shades of pink

on every gnarled branch

blossoming light 

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 7:2, Spring / Summer 2024

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