Category: Poetry

  • Senryu 2-3

    The following senryu were first published in Issue #104, November 2024, of Failed Haiku:

    summer tan lines

    my wedding ring remains

    even when it’s gone

    when the baby’s crying e v e r y   m i n u t e   f e e l s   l o n g

  • Senryu 1

    The following senryu was first published in the October 2024 edition of cattails:

    origami lily

    petals curled by a pencil

    fading in the sun

  • Tanka 1

    The following tanka was first published in the October 2024 edition of cattails:

    inside a tent

    shushing my baby to sleep

    deep in the forest . . .

    soon she cannot hear me

    over rain’s pitter-patter