A selection of my haiku published since 2015:
giant chess
children look the knights
in the eye
(The Asahi Shimbun, Asahi Haikuist Network, 2 November 2018.)
white stork,
you do not pair for life
nor I
(Le Lumachine, N° 28, 2018)
blue wildflowers
the map that won’t
refold
(The Heron’s Nest, June 2018)
jasmine
a grandmother
in every floret
(The Heron’s Nest, June 2018)
thrown clay
a new planet starts
to spin
(Stardust, In the Starlight, April 2018)
her freesias
in his colours
prison wedding
(Chrysanthemum, March 2018, issue #23)
Genealogy Day
come nightfall I line up
the skeletons
(Presence, Issue 60, 2018)
night bus home
the idle counterweights
of cranes
(The Heron’s Nest, March 2018)
tended grave
a man makes the sign
for daughter
(Mayfly, issue 64)
premature birth
I choose the thinnest needles
and the softest wool
(Pulse, 16 February 2018)
New Year’s Eve
my hostess offers me
the home I lost
(The Asahi Shimbun, Asahi Haikuist Network, 29 December 2017)
truce peaches
gently I wash out
their bruises
(Akitsu Quarterly, winter 2017)
felled branches
the park
gets a brand new sky
(Gnarled Oak, Issue 14, 22 November 2017)
twice a widow
laundry stiff from ice
brought in to thaw
(Presence, Issue 59, 2017)
love poetry
back on the shelf
dust in my throat
(the Aurorean, fall/winter 2017-18)
bundled up
under the Milky Way
our naked thoughts
(Acorn, fall issue 2017)
sunflowers
facing in all directions
decisions
(The Mainichi, 17 October 2017)
sitting down
in another woman’s perfume
plastic flowers
(hedgerow #120 (summer 2017 print issue)
standing in line
for winter soup
a harvest of gourds
(The Croatian International Haiku Contest 2017, highly commended)
hurricane season
a journalist flies
against the flow
(The New Verse News, 11 September 2017)
both you
and the moon tonight
a second late
(The World Haiku Review, Summer 2017, Vanguard haiku)
heatwave
a child draws the head
on a hangman
(Under the Basho, 13 July 2017)
white ruffle
tied to the aerial
wrong car
(Right Hand Pointing, Issue 112, July 2017)
Alzheimer’s –
the pomander
that I made her
(Failed Haiku, Vol. 2, issue 17)
holiday snap
lilacs open
on a tourist’s skirt
(Otata, Issue 17, May 2017)
my late night
mystery caller
Northern Lights
(Joint winner, tinywords challenge, N° 17.1, March 2017)
oysters’ lips
tremble underwater –
unsure I can conceive
(Modern Haiku, N° 47.3, 2016)
sheets of rain
a sunflower
on your damp postcard
(The 27th ITO EN Oi Ocha New Haiku Contest, 2016, Merit Award)
a bride at sixteen green apples
(A Hundred Gourds, June 2016)
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