under the blackthorn in the hush after moonrise badgers shoulder through

false spring the snow sits heavy but the birds still sing

our daughter's birthday twenty-three years and I don't know I don't know how I don't know how she grew such wings

1/3 light rain on new orchard grass __________ my window open just a crack as i roll up and down on crackling gravel sipping a taste of coal smoke spiraling into a thin sky as evening air turns blue brittle seeping into the fractured remains of the old Millfield tipple

Driving to Dairy Queen with my daughter through the ruralest parts of southeast Ohio before the time change and after the flooding so that it's 7:13 and dark as midnight but the moon is a schoolgirl with mud on her hands. And suddenly we hear them: spring peepers everywhere and everywhere spring

deep red the aching of the full moon fills her crescent arms #dailyhaikuprompt new moon

walking a small dog on a warm February afternoon we turn the corner to find tiny suns in bloom forsythia

another war to make small men feel big

Honored that my #poem "The Search for Starlight" was just published in Literary Revelations Journal! literaryrevelations.com/2026/02/23/a...

clear and bright call of the red winged blackbird piercing the dawn air #dailyhaikuprompt blackbird

Rothko, in flight I paint the earth with my eyes

branching everywhere one seed #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt #nature #imageandverse

plopped down on the kelp couch Poseidon sips his salty tea from a giant seashell #5lines

an unfinished thought the sickle-moon under cloud ending in silence

out of my natural habitat the undiscovered country

sweeping the kitchen floor the remnants of living Ash Wednesday *** rushing to work contemplation takes a backseat smudged forehead *** scattered in the last autumn leaves flock of small brown sparrows take wing Lenten prayers

snow covered branches stretch and move catching the wind a new day begins #haiku #poetry

enjoying what I'm working on I've convinced the world it's spring

under a blue sky her quiet house of snow

fingers flying like fish on the spawn

finally found the paper bag carrying my tune #senryu #senryusunday #dailyhaikuprompt

rain through the night the birds dream of spring I awake to song

In a sea of solitude Moon aches for Earth's embrace Always just out of reach (My 📸) #vss365 #ache #haiku #poem

tumbling back into the arms of the trees I am carried through February like a ghost on a wire

let us acknowledge that winter is hard so when the first crocus pushes its head through February's pique and March's muck we appreciate that it is a push that we too escaped

not asking for much in the flimsy winter weeds the first snail of spring

under heavy snow a tiny purple violet raises its sweet face #dailyhaikuprompt violet

new moon the long exhale of going unnoticed #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt

red berry trail... the fairy queen tiptoes past the sleeping fox #UnknownFairyTales #haiku

Wings of slate and smoke, Heavy grace above the water. Neck tucked, legs trailing, A master of patience takes the air. Great Blue Heron #photography #photo #wildlifephotography #NaturePhotography #Birds

beyond the rowan where the robin is singing February rain

sports day I watch the gold silver bronze of the sparrows

hello, darlings I whisper to the birds happy to be the crazy bird lady if it means that I'm alive

midnight kitchen spell~ the kingdom fits in one cup #UnknownFairyTales #haiku

Wow. You could hear a pin drop in that studio.

I’m waiting for you on the lightness of birch bark grandmother’s breath #haiga #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

#dailyhaikuprompt #catfish at the fishmongers grandad and catfish compare whiskers

woods at night from the eyes of a moose moths drink tears

midnight bells ringing in the fog #haiku

long wet rags of mist in the scraggly teasel-field larks sing from the ground

Finally, finally, FINALLY started writing a new book. The ice is turning to floe.

Some seek the limelight Never seeing the beauty Found in the #shadows (My 📸) #vss365 #haiku #shadow

peanuts today for the blue jays and cardinals what greater joy than to give and receive

and from their graves there grew a silver pear tree with golden fruit #haiku #UnknownFairyTales

her death required my small death a burying of things held oh so tightly it was hard to peel my fingers back to release them I lean against the dark stone and wait for the angel to strike a match

It is just the way things are anything transcendent requires something dark before dawn opens over the night’s ridge, golden, glorious, as birdsong swells with color and light lilting across dancing water 1of2

and now we wait while the snow keeps watch

Feels like society’s really broken down in the US in a way that’s deeply traumatic. But also there are college students knocking on doors asking for shovels (they’re not well-prepared) and helping trapped motorists by shoveling and pushing out cars. Up to 24 of them now, wandering streets together

a new year i try to shake a habit counting syllables my illusion of order in this world of chaos #tanka #TankaPoem #haiku #SenseWrds 175 #senryu #senryusunday

snow on the sill~ pink hyacinths in a quiet room #haiku