mother's ring
a missing stone
in the story
Modern Haiku 56:1 (2025)
what I don't know grows daily fireflies at noon
ONE ART Haiku Anthology (2025)
the dictionary meaning of her crows and other sadnesses
ant ant ant ant ant (2025)
repeat scan--
the deer in the eyes of the woman in the waiting room
ant ant ant ant ant (2025)
I sing the whole alphabet for her moonlight
Modern Haiku, 55.2 (2024)
new kitten the world on a string
Acorn 53, Fall 2024
breaking up the waves awash with the history of fishes
Frogpond 47:2 (2024)
another mother's day band aid for the exit wound
ONE ART, April 2024
cutting narcissus
we talk to our children
about the war
The Heron's Nest, March 2024
chickadee…
the stream speaks
in its own words
The Heron's Nest, March 2024
light drizzle
the tulip puzzle
snaps together
Ito En Art of Haiku, June 2024 semifinalist
shady hike
the bird I cannot name
has a name for me
Ito En Art of Haiku, May 2024 semifinalist
doing her best motherless rain raises the daisies
Frogpond 47:1, Winter 2024
white teeth and the wind weaves through the trees
Password 1 (January 2024)
fir
st fern f
ading
into
the pri
mal
Password 1 (January 2024)
outside the window frames a Rothko a raven
Password 1 (January 2024)
peony opening my heart too close to the surface
Kingfisher 8 (2023)
anonymous my shadow follows into the autumn meadow
Modern Haiku 54:3 (2023)
country walk the dogs into hens into goats
Kingfisher 8 (2023)
fear
my
me
beco
un
I
us
croc
w
sno
Modern Haiku 54.1 (2023)
where the trees are my before picture
Frogpond 46:3 (2023)
republished on Charlotte DiGregorio's "Daily Haiku" blog, Oct 20, 2024
an answer without end quotes the forest stream
Frogpond 46:2 (2023)
Re-published in Frogpond 46:3 (2023) for the Museum of Literature "Best of Issue Frogpond Award" for the previous issue.
Also: The Haiku Foundation's 2nd Volunteer Anthology (2024);
Red Moon Anthology, Red Moon Press, 2024
fieldstone wall
the illness that grandmother
kept to herself
The Heron's Nest (March 2023)
the same argument swans
Modern Haiku 54.2 (2023)
trapped in a body the star a sky wanders
Kingfisher 7 (2023)
two days after the first dose the world falls into starlings
Pan Haiku Review 1 (2023)
sheets of rain
the nurse explains what
we already know
Acorn (Spring 2023)
beach meditation
my attention shifts from
all the gull drama
Failed Haiku 78 (2023)
soaring
with his words
paper butterfly
Failed Haiku 78 (2023)
Venn raindrops winter circles into one
Bones 24 (2022)
concealed by soil a seed uncurls her name
Petrichor 21 (Pebbles issue; 2022)
teenager in the house and other ways of knowing
Prune Juice 37 (2022)
shibori sky
the secret life
of starlings
Frogpond 45:2 (2022)
as much as spring weighs the loneliness of leaves
Modern Haiku 53:2 (2022)
morning sea
I shake the night
from my wings
Kingfisher 5 (2022)
white feathers where the cat returned moonlight
The Heron's Nest (June 2022)
baby shower
she remembers me
innocent
Prune Juice 36 (2022)
maple rings
the age the years
stop counting
Akitsu Quarterly (Summer 2022)
shaking off the lake a blur of common loon
Frogpond 45.2 (Spring/Summer 2022)
seagull prints
the party held
without me
Frogpond 45:1 (Winter 2022)
brown leaf carpet
I learn to walk
on what came before
Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2021-2022 (released January 2022)
getaway weekend
the secret places
within us
Modern Haiku, 53:1 (2022)
scent memory trigger my autonomy severs itself
ing ing ing she escapes from neverhere
enunciating a nameless grief schwa
nowhere fast rain drops her outline
hear t be at she breaks down in
syll
a
bles
MadSwirl, Jan 6, 2022
(five single-line senryu)
fatigue days
everything to do
with et cetera
Sonic Boom (2021)
where the roots are: Best of Paper Lanterns Anthology, vol II (Yavanika Press, 2021)
unseen chickadee
improving
the silence
Acorn (Fall, 2021)
curve of her ribs
twelve crescent moons
rise with each breath
Frogpond 44.2 (2021)
romanesco
her analysis slips
into fractals
MahMight Journal (2021)
moonscape
not only / but also
mountains
Frogpond 44:3 (2021)
the lies we tell ourselves sea glass
Trash Panda (Winter 2021)
season fatigue
the August creek offers
whatever is left
#FemkuMag 31 (November 2021)
elsewhere fish
a morning boat returns
the way it left
Presence 71 (2021)
when home
isn't
owl echoes
tinywords 21.2 (2021)
lunar eclipse...
his before hers
on the census
#FemkuMag 28 (January 2021)
scalene the one-eighty mind of a sparrow
ant ant ant ant ant (2021)
september our sameness seeps out of everything
ant ant ant ant ant (2021)
strawberry picking
the hallelujah chorus
note by note
Kingfisher 2 (2020)
winter moon
the maple backlit
one branch at a time
31st ITO En Oi Ocha Shinhaiku, Merit Award (2020)
alone at the viewing lilies
Sonic Boom Senryu Contest, Third Place (2020)
sun warmed tomato and my bones ripe
Under the Basho (2020)
when it hears me singing bird at the feeder
Under the Basho (2020)
what remains
after the river is gone
this empty bed
Mayfly 69 and 70 (cover; 2020)
The Red Moon Anthology (2020)
Under the Basho (2020)
Haiku Commentary (2020)
The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award, winner (2020)
vernal equinox
the forest swallows
its mountain
Harusame (February, 2020)
high risk pregnancy
the schedule of shadows
across my bed
The Haiku Foundation Haiku Dialogue (July 2020)
luna moth
must think that I too
am magical
Modern Haiku (2020)
3am Tao
I try to sleep
without trying
tinywords (2020)
melancholy forest half of it underground
is/let (2020)
closer to forgiveness lepidoptera
Sonic Boom (2020)
or the fish homes become everywhere
Bones (2020)
sunset window the tree becomes my face
Under the Basho (2019)
earthworm
the angle
of the robin’s head
Frogpond (2019)
warrior pose
the long stretch
toward forgiveness
Otata Haiku (2019)
moonless night
my breath
lost between stars
The Heron's Nest (2019)
sheep duck rabbit
becoming each other...
clouds and ecology
Akitsu Quarterly (2019)
exhaling...
my mother becomes
the wind
Akitsu Quarterly (2019)
first bird of spring
he flies away
before I name him
Akitsu Quarterly (2019)
butterfly
in my open hand
it is refuge or risk
this momentary rest from flight
this soft place to land
Atlas Poetica (2018)
waiting for news
I cling to stolen air
the nothingness
I try to breathe
left between the raindrops
Moonbathing (2017)
goose wings
like origami paper
folding
valley and mountain
valley and mountain
Moonbathing (2017)
spring thaw
each unique snowflake
becomes the same
Chrysanthemum (2017)
cherry blossoms
I click the same photo
as last year
Modern Haiku (2017)
blackbird
from a morning shadow
lifting
Akitsu Quarterly (2016)
the simple beauty
in second hand things
moonlight
Akitsu Quarterly (2016)
each of them
wants a part of me
I am Antarctica
belonging to no one
yet bearing many flags
NeverEnding Story (2016)
dormant buds
on the fingertips of branches
the moment of hope
before I leave
darkness behind
hedgerow (2016)
motherless mother
her hair braided
with the silver light
of stars
that no longer exist
wild voices: an anthology of poems and art by women (wildflower poetry press, 2016)
an enormity
beyond comprehension
the Sun
and, larger, love
breaking the scale
Atlas Poetica (2016)
falling up
into love
I grasp a wisp of white
like a new equilibrium
with the boundless sky
Atlas Poetica (2016)
how should we give
what wasn’t received —
even a nebula
creates suns
from old stardust
Atlas Poetica (2016)
one porch light
shining among the billions
the neighbors
spend the night
circling a distant star
Atlas Poetica (2016)
if only
happiness were easy
paper flowers
rearranged
in a waterless vase
tinywords (2016)
snowstorm a hundred paper geese
Akitsu Quarterly (2016)
beyond the frosted window everything
Akitsu Quarterly (2016)
night after night
the stars that might be gone
and I
searching the skies
for particles and waves
Moonbathing (2016)
long voyage
to the center of love
your arms
grow a fertile forest
around an old volcano
hedgerow (2016)
yellow sun
fades to snow
dandelion seeds
Blithe Spirit (2016)
lullaby moon her breath was once a sun
Blithe Spirit (2016)
morning light
every leaf
adjusts its position
VerseWrights (2016)
soaring
with his words
paper butterfly
VerseWrights (2016)
alpine lake I wade into fireflies
VerseWrights (2016)
sunrise breakfast
the last morning star
fades into marmalade
VerseWrights (2016)
for a moment
I see
her face has changed again
a sunrise, quietly
paints a new sky
VerseWrights (2016)
New Moon
tonight I console myself
with infinity
VerseWrights (2016)
the music
of falling apart
rearranged
note by note
in my song of renewal
red lights tanka (2016)
rainstorm the toddler beats the drums
A Hundred Gourds (2016)
NeverEnding Story (2017)
a comma
becomes a full stop
moonshadows
A Hundred Gourds (2015)
NeverEnding Story (2016)
outside this house
the erratic song of wind chimes
like Brownian motion
the randomness
of beautiful moments
Atlas Poetica (2015)
when I finally sat down
I still felt in motion
like a momentary insight
into the Earth
and its paradox of stillness
Atlas Poetica (2015)
it could fall
either way
yet I will count
on your odd petal
loving me
Atlas Poetica (2015)
turtle path she found her way home
hedgerow (2015)
the deception
of sky ceiling . . .
this nagging self-doubt
Acorn (2015)
if each raindrop
has the river in it
why can’t I remember
my moment
as a sun?
Skylark (2015)
blessed is the one
who finds the bottom
of the ocean
with nowhere to go
but up
Atlas Poetica (2015)
unsleeping toddler
we sing songs
about our love...
the ancient light
is finally home
Atlas Poetica (2015)
the time I thought
the emptiness was empty
and dismissed
the air
that lets me breathe
Atlas Poetica (2015)
evening chill
I walk
a worn path
to the winter side
of the Sun
Atlas Poetica (2015)
summer sunlight
through a green lace canopy
the energy
that slips through
my imperfect plans
tinywords (2015)
inside I know
I once was a sun
hot flashes
The Bamboo Hut (2015)
the things I know
without looking
moonshadows
The Bamboo Hut (2015)
the day
clings to the Earth
like atmosphere
I wait for a night
that goes all the way up
The Bamboo Hut (2015)
hands on head
a measured space
for my universe to exist
The Bamboo Hut (2015)
constellation
the shape
of The Ten Thousand Things
The Bamboo Hut (2015)
the Crescent Moon
begins her story again…
open parentheses
The Bamboo Hut (2015)
standing upon
a frozen river
which way should I go
when I'm no longer carried
in one direction?
Colorado Boulevard Poetry Corner (2015)
each day it slips
a slow avalanche
from chiseled peaks
my topography
eroded by the ages
red lights tanka (2015)
my birth place
a distant memory --
fireflies
hedgerow (2014)
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