first frost laying the baby's blanket on the mums - Deborah A. Bennett Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Issue 6:1

on the church sign "hate has no home here" winter sunlight - Deborah A. Bennett Fresh Out Magazine, Dec. 2023

old diary so few ashes autumn moon - Deborah A. Bennett Modern Haiku, Issue 56:3

for the heart very small things morning sparrows - Deborah A. Bennett Rattle Magazine, Issue 68

crisp blue sky a pair of chuck taylor's hanging from a wire - Deborah A. Bennett Tsuri-Doro Haiku/Senryu, Issue 25

evening snow caught in the barbed wire fence one blue feather - Deborah A. Bennett Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, June 2021

fresh spring breeze picking dandelions from the child's teeth - Deborah A. Bennett Shadowpond Journal, Issue IV

canto by canto last faint cricket in the bamboo grove - Deborah A. Bennett The Cicada's Cry, Autumn 2024

festival of dolls child on the back porch braiding the kitchen mops - Deborah A. Bennett Fresh Out Magazine, July 2025

before the wound becomes a word say "flower" take your heart to the light on the roof say "moon" - Deborah A. Bennett Lothlorien Poetry Journal, April 2023

the army hat smells less and less like my brother summer night - Deborah A. Bennett Poetry Pea Journal, September 2022

sing out skylark it's your world too crescent moon - Deborah A. Bennett Puddock, Journal of the Scottish Haiku Society, May 2024

new year's dawn and everyone's birthday wild chrysanthemums - Deborah A. Bennett The Haiku Foundation, Haiku Dialogue, January 2025

summer lingers one peony - Deborah A. Bennett Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2022

wildfire ash the shopkeeper adjusts her flowered mask - Deborah A. Bennett Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2024

as one of us flower of the sala tree withering - Deborah A. Bennett The Wise Owl Daily Verse, November 2024

not dying yet pierced through saguaro moon - Deborah A. Bennett Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem, Issue 7

choosing a melon outside the bodega yellow butterfly - Deborah A. Bennett The Heron's Nest, Vol. XXVI No.2

falling through the broken window autumn moon - Deborah A. Bennett Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, October 2024

out of these clouds a blossom that has no name first autumn rain - Deborah A. Bennett Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Fall/Winter 2023

the thing that falls away is myself spring moon - Deborah A. Bennett Plum Tree Tavern, The Spring Moon Poems, May 2022

white moth over the green grave stone spring moon - Deborah A. Bennett Plum Tree Tavern, The Spring Moon Poems, May 2022

forgetting the world is only a drop of dew spring moon - Deborah A. Bennett Plum Tree Tavern, The Spring Moon Poems, May 2022

all day rain i add more flour to the kneaded dough - Deborah A. Bennett Amethyst Review, September 2022

as if all were right with the world magnolia blooms - Deborah A. Bennett Amethyst Review, September 2022

the road also bends within me autumn evening - Deborah A. Bennett Modern Haiku, Issue 53:2

something of me in the memory of a fawn gone into the woods - Deborah A. Bennett The Haiku Foundation, Haiku Dialogue, November 2022

to have died and come back again cherry blossoms - Deborah A. Bennett Rattle Magazine, Issue 71

how to explain a gun to the small child singing to the plum trees at dawn - Deborah A. Bennett Frogpond Journal 47:1

eternal life even the cuckoo wants it summer night - Deborah A. Bennett The Haiku Foundation Haiku Dialogue, February 2023 Re:Virals 419

learning to become no one firefly - Deborah A. Bennett Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem, Issue 4

returning home path of the wind through the lemongrass - Deborah A. Bennett Rattle Magazine, Issue 68

spring deepens my uncombed afro full of cherry blossoms - Deborah A. Bennett The Heron's Nest, June 2022

learning not to cling to this floating world heron ascending in snow - Deborah A. Bennett Akita International Haiku Network World Haiku Series 2021

protecting each other's solitude path through the bamboo - Deborah A. Bennett Amethyst Review, September 2022

we never ask they keep offering cherry blossoms - Deborah A. Bennett Golden Triangle Haiku 2022

the will to live returning wind through the chimes - Deborah A. Bennett Frogpond Journal, Issue 46:1

a child must have conjured them dandelions in snow - Deborah A. Bennett Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2022

i sit all day meeting no one cemetery birds - Deborah A. Bennett Tsuri-Doro Haiku Journal, Summer 2022

i am a ghost in the park swing too crescent moon - Deborah A. Bennett Lothlorien Poetry Journal, September 2023

the moon tonight over george floyd square light of the yellow mums - Deborah A. Bennett Plum Tree Tavern, April 2022

in pale moonlight the lake the lake the lake honeysuckle scent - Deborah A. Bennett Asahi Haikuist Network, Sept. 2022

burning leaves all day long the eagle circles - Deborah A. Bennett Hedgerow Poems, Issue 134

sweeping the stair under the attic window the sun too is dust - Deborah A. Bennett Modern Haiku, Issue 53:3

night of falling leaves a thousand names at once become the wind - Deborah A. Bennett Plum Tree Tavern, June 2022

no one to talk to about old times oak galls falling - Deborah A. Bennett Poetry Pea Journal, January 2023 The Haiku Foundation re:Virals 392

of this world or the one to come white plum blossoms - Deborah A. Bennett The Haiku Foundation Haiku Dialogue, August 2022

in the field among the bush clover shell casings - Deborah A. Bennett Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, Issue 27

an ordinary life yet purple dahlias - Deborah A. Bennett Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem, May 2022

half my life gone watching blackbirds let go let go let go - Deborah A. Bennett Akitsu Quarterly, Summer 2023