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

color of the pebble the child carried home summer moon - Deborah A. Bennett Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2022

a porch above the neighbor playing "Taps" red setting sun - Deborah A. Bennett Hedgerow Poems, Issue 138

waiting room become the white moth in a field of clover - Deborah A. Bennett Prune Juice Journal, Issue 38

opening the door for the first spring fly waxing half moon - Deborah A. Bennett Lothlorien Poetry Journal, September 2023

there is no path but the child is my guide fireflies - Deborah A. Bennett Fresh Out Magazine, March 2022

river receding from the porch stair hare in the clover blooms - Deborah A. Bennett Fresh Out Mag, March 2025

carefully avoiding the news of the world finch in the sunflower leaves - Deborah A. Bennett Akitsu Quarterly, Summer 2022

letting the grief be ghost orchids - Deborah A. Bennett Frogpond Journal 48:1

climbing over the transom window old summer dusk - Deborah A. Bennett Modern Haiku, Issue 56:2