The following haiku was first published November 21, 2024 in Under the Basho:

frosted moon reflected in the milk

The following haiku was first published in the German/English haiku journal Chrysanthemum, issue 33. Download the issue to see the German translation.

a screech of gulls

gliding in graceful arcs

circling the landfill

The following haiku was first published November 1, 2024 in Asahi Haikuist Network:

who will break first:

the crying baby

or the crying babi?

*Babi is what my daughter calls me, a cute form of “baba”, the Chinese for father.

The following haiku were first published in the September 2024 issue of The Bamboo Hut:

the lull between storms

the night insects sing,

making up for lost time

Japanese maple

surface leaves of burgundy

hide the green within

endless lavender

a woman becomes a girl

under the sapphire sky

The following haiku was first published August 16, 2024 in Asahi Haikuist Network:

white, smoky sky

the sun a hazy, orange ball

Canadian wild fires

The following haiku were first published in the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of Akitsu Quarterly:

Saturn|Jupiter

now so close

they appear as one

every summer

the underbrush and vines claim

more of the asphalt

The following haiku were first published in the September 2023 issue of The Bamboo Hut:

At the meadow’s edge,

a broken birdcage sits on

a picnic table

The fog could hide

anything—a river, a forest,

a mountain, an ocean

Quiet, still evening—

ripples on the placid lake—

from what?

The following haiku was first published March 1, 2024 in Asahi Haikuist Network:

frigid morning,

burning afternoon

confused, spring begins

The following haiku was first published September 29, 2023 in Asahi Haikuist Network. This was my second ever haiku accepted for publication, but it actually came out a month before my first haiku.

Lunar rover snaps

Pictures ‘til the frigid night:

mayflies fly one day

This haiku commemorates India’s Pragyan lunar rover.

The following haiku was first published October 20, 2023 in Asahi Haikuist Network. This was my first ever poetry publication!

After the hard rain,

the mountain is shrouded

in misty clouds