the soft mathematics of rain falling blossoms
Third Place, 11th Annual Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Award 2023
heartwood something like forgiveness growing in the cut
First publication: haikuKATHA, Issue 11, September 2022
Longlisted for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem 2022
peep-toe shoes
the eggshell blue nail polish
of an empty nester
3rd place in The 2nd Modern Kigo Project Competition
teenager’s room
dust on the book
of fairytales
First publication: tinywords 22.1, 7 June 2022
Under the Basho, Personal Best 2022
ash-throated flycatcher the pale-yellow hitch in its song
First publication: Under The Basho, May 2022
skipping stones: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2022
bonfire
in a refugee camp
a toddler curls
into the warmth
of her mother’s lap
drought
has filled Lake Hodges
with saplings and scrub
a white egret wades
through neighborhood traffic
meandering flying buttress dam i drift away
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective 19 April 2023
Hodges Dam, San Diego, CA
our steps overlapping souls
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective 27 April 2023
Piedras Pintadas Trail, San Diego, CA
over winter fireflies in love