Haiku Published in 2023

if a dream
could be a dress…
trying on the night sky

-Presence Issue #77, November 2023

snow on the handrails
we descend
to the blue-black river

-Presence (issue 75, March 2023)

hi!
hiya!
hyacinth!

-Prune Juice (December 2023)

chlorine
swimming in my nostrils
before I reach the pool

-tsuri-dōrō (Nov/Dec 2023 Issue #18)

olive tray
she picks
the lonely one

-Prune Juice (December 2023; Included in Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku for 2023)

the touch of cold water…
I rinse the leeks
long after the sand is gone

-Modern Haiku (Issue 54:3, Autumn 2023)

so perfect
she’s afraid
of the last note

-tsuri-dōrō (Issue 17, September/October 2023)

scent of the meadow
in my hair
violets

-Wales Haiku Journal (Summer 2023)

the touch of cold water…
I rinse the leeks
long after the sand is gone

-Modern Haiku (Issue 54:3, Autumn 2023)

mahogany handrail
she lingers on the stairs
before greeting guests

-Presence (Issue 76 2023)

promised me 
the world but gave me 
heartache

-Failed Haiku (Issue 87, February 2023)

white towels in the bathroom period blood drips down my leg 

-Failed Haiku (Issue 92, July 2023)

scrolling through contacts 
all the people 
I never talk to

-Modern Haiku (Volume 54:2, Summer 2023)

passing under the maple I breathe in fall colors

-Haiku Foundation's Haiku Per Diem (February 2023)

sipping dewdrops…
the cool morning
enters me

-Wales Haiku Journal (Autumn 2023)

peeling the orange a cathedral

-Kingfisher (Issue 8, October 2023; nominated for 2023 Touchstone Award)

creaking floorboards
the comfort of knowing
someone else is home

-The News Gazette of Urbana-Champaign (April 16, 2023)

so familiar 
I forget about it
the bench I sit upon

-Frogpond (Volume 46:1, Winter 2023; nominated for 2023 Touchstone award)

heart on my sleeve
everyone
stares

-Failed Haiku (Issue 92, July 2023)

twilight deepens stained glass angels singing

-Frogpond (Volume 46:3, Autumn 2023)

inexperienced moonlight in the bed of lilies

-Kingfisher (Issue 8, October 2023; shortlisted for 2023 Touchstone Award; included in Haiku 2024 Anthology)

watercolor painting the forest full of light

-Under the Basho (2023)

a dappled nap beneath linden leaves whispering

-Haiku Society of America (HSA) Anthology 2023

clear-running water
my shadow bathes
without me

-Cattails (October 2023)

end of the road 
a path into 
fields of lavender

-Frogpond (Volume 46:2, Spring/Summer 2023; nominated for a Touchstone Award)

in my dream
a haiku
I forget upon waking

(failed haiku Issue 88, March 2023)