unexpected guest in hummingbird's kitchen my house #haiku #HaikuSaturday

Sure wish I could tell my uncle about this one. Thank you, Orange Blossom Review, for including my CNF essay "Rubber Bands" on your 2025 #BOTN list. orangeblossomreview.org/botn-pushcart/

Less of a #haiku, more of a #monoku for #HaikuSaturday? never ashamed to be blue the sky

Grateful to be included on the long list for the 2025 Winter Soup Bowl chapbook contest from C&R Press who publish things I admire. crpress.org/cr-press-win... Back to my corner now to continue hoping that someday, someone will like me enough to make books with me.

Super proud to be HA-norably Mention chuckle-worthy! Thanks @aprilberrybooks.bsky.social @brilawyer.bsky.social! This story's beta readers ("family members I cornered in the kitchen") actually rolled their eyes when I read it to them. So grateful for this 2nd opinion. #KidLitChuckleChallenge

#haiku #HaikuSaturday muscle memory-- my fingers still searching for one more cancelled app

I'm so honored to have been shouted out in this completely amazing piece that you all need to read RIGHT NOW because it is 🔥and will probably change your life or at least make your current existential crisis more bearable. Here's to many more ☠️s, @colettelh.bsky.social and @havehashad.com.

Hey, Alabama friends! Please heed this call to action. ⬇️

Less of a #haiku, more of a #senryu for this #HaikuSaturday. half full? half empty? either way, the glass isn't bulletproof

Thrilled to (finally) be balancing out all the passes in my inbox by making the finalist list in this WOW! Women on Writing 2025 Q4 CNF Contest. Also, can't wait for judging to wrap up so that I can (finally) tell you all about the super embarrassing thing I did that inspired this essay. 👀

Thank you, @andrewssusanm.bsky.social‬, for the 8/30 #HaikuSaturday prompt that inspired me to write this #haiku (and learn more about loulu trees, a palm species native to Hawaii and now endangered) and then revise it (and learn more). heavy, salted air in the stagnant shade of loulu tree stump

ball abandoned old dog teaches me to fetch #haiku #HaikuSaturday

newborn cicadas sing to me the song they sung to my ancestors #haiku #HaikuSaturday

I am so very honored to be on this list, which includes some of the many fantastic @havehashad.com pieces that made me want to be part of HAD in the first place. 💙 Here's to many more.

#haiku #HaikuSaturday pitter patter rain crescendo boom of thunder in the taiko drum Photo of Midwest Buddhist Temple's MBT Taiko (mbtchicago.org/taiko/)

For #PoemsAbout #Ceasefire, a story that has haunted me for years. Italicized lines are quotes from news articles. www.cnn.com/2017/08/29/u... @alanparry.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#haiku #HaikuSaturday arc of garden hose magics rainbows from blank air-- what else have I missed?

#haiku #HaikuSaturday thunderstorm the sky shows off its power chords

#haiku #HaikuSaturday no t r a i n i n g w h e e l s the distance between us w i d e n s fast

#haiku #HaikuSaturday obon candles all the light a life makes another spent match

Delighted to see my #amquerying #MG #NIV on this list--especially after an early draft failed to place last year. This version was deeply revised with the guidance of my awesome writing mentor @bycrandall.bsky.social. Thank you so much, @iaminprint.bsky.social and #agent Penny Holroyde!

#haiku #HaikuSaturday the door? locked. the trunk? shut. the road? opens

Enjoy church this morning, y'all.

Feeling a bit uninspired today. But still trying. fireflies we practice holding the light #haiku #HaikuSaturday

This #HaikuSaturday, I found inspiration in the structure of this lovely #haiku by @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social‬. Here's my take: new moon I too wait to be seen

Thanks for sharing this @havehashad.com - a ☠️ for all the 4-legged friends we still miss. P.S. If this isn't enough 💔 for your day, torture yourself more with this other thing I wrote: "Deadlines" (issue 28, Black Fox Lit Mag, free download @ blackfoxlitmag.com).

Very grateful to have been promoted to this shortlist.

Thank you @bathflashaward.bsky.social for including my story on this long list!

between dreams all I hear is crickets #haiku #HaikuSaturday

Honored to have homed this piece in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social "on the bus i blast my walkman loud enough for bass to bleed from my ears and i think maybe this is what it’s like to be a comet and leave in your wake a trail of who you burn to be."

Thank you @publishedbyjake.bsky.social for getting this story out. "After my father dies, the saddest thing is my son’s small face pressed to our front window, his small hands pointing at the place where my father used to park. Then the saddest thing is the day he stops pointing."

I'm either thrilled or terrified to have these pages torn from my journal (my first published CNF!) (or at least: the first I've admitted is CNF) live today at Orange Blossom Review. Here's "Rubber Bands." orangeblossomreview.org/journal-issu...

#haiku #HaikuSaturday e c h o c a r d i o g r a m the song of our future skips a beat

This #PoemsAbout #FierceBattle was true when drafted last year. But kiddo picked up that 🎸 again, clicked w/ the song "Float On," stuck w/ it. I'm taking him to his 1st real concert this summer: Modest Mouse. Thx @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for including it in Selected Poetry: Spring 2025.

Thanks for the ☠️, @havehashad.com. This was my 6th HAD sub in 9 months. I've never been so proud to be 🟦 & also never struggled so hard to explain an Exciting! Writing! Thing to my (non-writer) partner. Here's to breaking 💔s in 1-4 weeks. (Hope we still have cookies.)

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#haiku #HaikuSaturday above an empty basin watermarks ring granite cliffs Inspired by: www.bbc.com/news/world-u... The article is old. The problem is not.

What a fantastic start to #Pride Month! We gave away 118 free #LGBTQIA+ books (including picture books, MG, YA & adult; fiction and nonfiction across all age groups) purchased with donated funds from @unabridgedbooks.bsky.social. If #ReadingIsResistance, read on.

Getting ready to give out free #LGBTQIA+ books at a #Pride Fest. All books donated by community members. "Hope will never be silent." --Harvey Milk.

rounding the bend startled deer startle me #haiku #HaikuSaturday photo by yamabon @pixabay

For #PoemsAbout #Defeat. @brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry.bsky.social

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done: babysitter HS reporter gig violinist teen music critic K-Mart cashier Tower Records clerk academic library clerk sushi bar hostess church nursery assistant middle school library assistant librarian book discussion guide writer book reviewer

#haiku #HaikuSaturday soccer season... my son scores another grass stain

#haiku #HaikuSaturday lengthening shadows measure the moments that slip through my fingers

Thank you @alexgino.bsky.social for being a fantastic human being. 💙

#haiku #HaikuSaturday one by one i weed again last week's dreams

I'm really grateful to receive an HM in the 2025 #PBandKidJudges Contest. What a thrill to know that actual children read & considered my story! Thank you so much, @authorkelliebeggs.bsky.social & kid judges. 💙

A revision of a prose poem for #PoemsAbout #Stardust. @alanparry.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

Honored to have eked into 12th place on the 2025 #springflingkidlit contest list with my Jodo Shinshu Buddhist story-poem, "My Parents Make Me Miss a Soccer Game to Clean the Temple Garden for Hanamatsuri." Thanks so much @ciaralovesbooks.bsky.social and @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social!

Thanks so much for homing my short story in the #SootAndBoots anthology, @alanparry.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social. And how fun to see some other #PoemsAbout writers on the list! My story, "Ribbons & Bows," developed from an @elegantliterature.bsky.social prompt in (very un-festive) July.