immersion into light renunciation

immersion into light renunciation


Happy to see that my poem was included in The Haiku Foundation Volunteer Anthology 2023 ‘The high lonesome.’ Thanks to jim kacian and Julie Kelsey for selecting the poem.

curing its perfect head of garlic
On this Volunteer Appreciation Day, I’m happy to be included in the beautiful anthology from The Haiku Foundation titled “Our Garden.” Thank you, Jim Kacian, Julie Blos Kelsey, and Theresa Cancro!

The anthology can be found here: https://thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/6497




the unforgivable otherness of flowers . .
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(my first attempt at a wet-felted flower didn’t turn out very well: unforgivable!)

inside the egg chicken and egg

with each layer I become lighter

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where angels rest their weary wings

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there is no end to us no beginning

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craning over the shape of my shadow dialogues

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Monoku ‘white light’ appeared as part of my haibun
Modern Haiku, 49:1, 2018
My monoku from New Resonance 10

it happens to the best of us ocean wave
featured in My Haiku Pond: ‘a peaceful community dedicated to the appreciation of English language haiku, haiku related Poetry and Art.’

Many thanks to My Haiku Pond editors Michael Smeer and Steve Smolak for featuring my work!
A New Resonance: Emerging Voices In English-Language Haiku, edited by Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts, now in its 10th edition
first frost distilling silence

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Pleased to share that my monoku:
sleepless night formatting loneliness
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is now in the Haiku Society of America anthology 2016, edited by David Grayson.
(First appeared in Bones – journal for contemporary haiku no. 9 March 15th 2016 p.22 and elsewhere).
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the shower head splutters Perseids
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Bones: journal for contemporary haiku XI, 2016
seascape with horizon



thin walls one step at a time




washing my hands of spring rain


Walking around the old city in Augsburg, I came across wonderful images revealed by peeling plaster.
crowding the city memory lanes
