From Shamrock Haiku Journal 2012–2018

The following poems were all first published in the Irish Haiku Society’s Shamrock Haiku Journal (online), and also appeared in its anthology, Shamrock Haiku Journal 2012–2018 (Dublin, Ireland: Shamrock Haiku Journal, 2018), both edited by Anatoly Kudryavitsky. The original journal publication issue and date appears after each poem.

summer drought—

a can of worms

left on the dock

#30, February 2015



boarded-up cabin—

goose tracks

across the wet porch

#30, February 2015



a toast to the bride—

my reflection

in the wine glass

#30, February 2015



pink bus

on the cherry

beginning to show

#30, February 2015 (in “Emergency” haibun)



not so cold

when you take my hand

the seaside cave

#36, February 2017



prairie sky—

the sudden spray

from a peeled mandarin

#38, October 2017



first winter storm—

the weathervane

points north

#40, September 2018