Recent Poetry and Haiku

My thanks to the editors of the publications, below, where the following poems and haiku have appeared or are forthcoming:

night jasmine, Frogpond, 47:21, spring/summer, 2024

Pear Tree with Sparrows: The Banyan Review, Fall 2023

swallows darting: zenpeacemakers.org, July 2023

silver morning: cattails, April, 2023

peeling posters: hedgerow: a journal of small poems, #142

old pine: Modern Haiku, issue #54.1, Fall 2022

empty swings: Haiku Corner, Japan Society, #34, 2022

walking (under redwoods): Seashores, issue #8, Fall, 2022 

Encomium for a Garden: Spiritus, Fall 2022 (Pushcart Prize nominee)

Things are Opening Up Here, Again, Passager, Fall 2022

walking (under redwoods), Seashores, Issue #8, Fall 2022

Notes from Snow Mountain: Humana Obscura, Spring 2022, #4

Sleeping Deer in the Afternoon: Canary, Spring 2022, #6

baby squirrel: Cattails, Spring 2022

Sites of the Shutdown: Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, #3, 2021

Varieties of Peace: Crosswinds Poetry Journal; Volume VI, 2021

early spring, spring breeze: Autumn Moon Haiku Journal; Spring/Summer 2021

little buddha: The Awakened One: Buddha-Themed Haiku from Around the World; August, 2021

sheltering in place: Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Fall/Winter, 2020

In the Cool of Morning: Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention, www.wagingpeace.org

autumn mist: Cattails, the Journal of the United Haiku and Tanka Society, October 2020

Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: Poems for Now (River Heron Review), September, 2020

pulling up: Wales Haiku Journal, October, 2020

almost autumn and pouring old plum wine: World Haiku Review, autumn, 2020

Temple Snow: West Marin Review, Vol. 10, winter 2020

foggy morning: frogpond, winter 2019

blackbirds feasting: Wales Haiku Journal, winter 2019

winter morning: World Haiku Review, winter 2020

carefully wrapping: Mayfly, #68, winter 2019

Spotting Turkeys: Verse Daily, November 24th, online, www.versedaily.org/2019/spottingturkeys.shtml

White Camellias in November and Walking Among Redwoods: California Quarterly, 45:4, 2019    

Ordinary Transformations: Passager, #67, 2019

Thinking about Not Thinking: Urthona Journal of Buddhism & the Arts, #34, 2019

After Beauty: Linden Avenue Journal, December, 2019

fingers sifting through: Wales Haiku Journal, Summer, 2019

When it Appears: Spiritus, Fall, 2019

Cutting Morning Glory Vines Before a Storm: ARTS, Fall, 2019

moonlight on the wall: hedgerow: a journal of small poems, Fall, 2019, #128

Oleander Light: Ocotillo Review, Summer, 2019

his straw hat, bottle rockets press, #41, August 2019

On Flegel’s Dessert Still Life: The Ekphrastic Review (online), 4/24/19

two senryu: birds, and this bamboo rake and I: failed haiku, June 2019

Night Songs: Loon Magic and Other Night Sounds (anthology), TallGrass Writers Guild, Outrider Press, Oct. 2019

Invisible Ocean: The Healing Muse, a Journal of Literary and Visual Art, #19, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Fall, 2019

early morning light (first line): Modern Haiku, #50:2, 2019

rainwater (first line)Heron’s Nest, June, 2019

Mirage, Summer Rain and Driftwood: Third Wednesday, a Literary and Arts Journal, Summer and Fall issues, 2019

Spring Breeze (first line): hedgerow, a journal of small poems, #126, Spring 2019

Blue Jay Way: Pinyon, Colorado Mesa University, Spring 2019

Cherries, After (winner of the Robert Frost Foundation Award): Clarion, Boston University, 2018

Pulling Weeds: The Curlew, June 2018; Wales, U.K.

Looking Out at the Stream: Albatross, 2018

White Poppies: Crosswinds Poetry Journal; Volume III, 2018

The Soul Longs for Home: Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies; Spring, 2018

Ekphrasis: World Enough Writers; Beer, Spirits, and Wine Anthology, 2018

November Turning, Scene from an Untended Garden, Christmas in the Yard, December Mushrooms: Dodging the Rain; November, December, 2017.  https://dodgingtherain.wordpress.com

Meeting in the Field: The Best of Kindness; The Origami Project, 2017

Pieces, Some Blue: Poet Lore, Winter/Fall 2017

The Good Knot: Spiritus, Spring,Vol. 17.1, 2017

Some Ways into Joy: Reed Magazine (150th anniversary issue), 2017

Crow Makes a Scene: Awake in the World, A Riverfeet Press Anthology, 2017

Bonsai: The Roaring Muse, Winter 2017

First Frost: Contemporary Poetry – an Anthology of Present Day Best Poems, Vol. 3, 2017

Spotting Turkeys, Persimmon Tree: Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. I, 2016

Uncertain Fire: Passager, Summer 2016

The Unsaid: How Higher Education Feels, Commentaries on Poems That Illuminate Emotions      in Learning and Teaching, Kathleen M. Quinlin, Sense Publishers, 2016

Self: Xanadu, Long Island Poetry Collective, 2016

Cranking the Wheel: Crab Creek Review, Fall 2015

Two Haiku: Poetry & Place Anthology, 2015

Joice Street Steps, Crossings: Archaeopteryx, 2014

Coming Home to the Dark: The Madison Review, Spring 2012