Category: Haiku

my new Crocs
are at my PO box
because I’m cool

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9 April 2022
Latham NY

I’ve been writing haiku from time to time for many years. For a bit more than a year now, I’ve been writing at least one haiku every day. A while ago, poet Dave Bonta turned me on to modern English haiku, which often breaks free of the 5-7-5 form so many of us learned growing up. I started reading journals of contemporary haiku and following current haiku poets on Instagram (though I’m off social media these days). It was through the latter path that I found the journal Trash Panda, and I had my first haiku published by them in their winter 2021-2022 issue a couple months back. I was reminded that I’d never mentioned that here on the blog when I found out last night that my second haiku will soon be published by another journal. I’ll tell you more about that when it happens. Right now, though, huge thanks to TP (!) for being the first journal to put one of my haiku in print.

a cold spring shower
I could tip so easily into
“never, ever again”

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8 April 2022
Latham NY

a hazy sun
above glass-smooth water
desktop wallpaper

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5 April 2022
Latham NY

sunrise:
I collect the pieces
of my broken heart

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3 April 2022
Latham NY

turkey in my stomach
frog in my throat
counting sheep

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2 April 2022
Latham NY