empty field
a forgotten mitten
clutches snow


Akitsu Quarterly, Winter 2016

just when we thought
she'd live forever
starlight


hedgerow 97

pooling where the creek bends fish


tinywords 16.1

spare change
my conscience empties
my pocket


bottle rockets 35

twilight
every bird
a crow


Under The Basho 2016

finger paint
sunlight spreads
across her shirt


Bamboo Hut, Fall 2016

head lice
I pick through my son's
report card


Failed Haiku, issue 6

rustling leaves
the sound of children
after dark


Wild Plums 2.2

darkness ...
her name slips
into it

Acorn 37

candle smoke
the afterlife
of prayer


Modern Haiku 47.3

autumn dusk
we sit in the darkness
of each other


Prune Juice 19

robin song
the length of morning
shadows


Presence 55

milk carton
the smiling child missing
a tooth


Failed Haiku, volume 4

heavy snow
I shovel the morning
out of my day


A Hundred Gourds,  March 2016

night train
a whistle sounds
from the toy box


hedgerow 84

big game
he hangs his hat
on an antler


Failed Haiku Volume 3

dusk
the last orange
deeper in the bowl


A Hundred Gourds June 2016

chiffon strap
the immodesty
of moonlight


hedgerow 78

mountain lake
the pull of oars
on starlight


cattails May 2016

garbage day
the neighbourhood littered
with gulls


Yanty's Butterfly

midday sun
he steps around
dad's shadow


hedgerow 73

no peeling
back the starfish
summer's end


Frogpond 39.1

pillbox
she divides
by zero


Bones 9

shadow dawn
I start to hate
yesterday's poems


failed haiku v. 1 I. 3

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tinywords 15.2

Father's Day
she gives me a break
from the kids


cattails Sept 2015

night winds
I let her go
to voicemail


Frogpond 39.1

morning light
a sparrow's shadow
crosses the blinds


hedgerow 61

Banff Trail
he shoots a moose
with his iPhone


failed haiku v.1 i.1

night fog
I lose my bearings
standing still


brass bell, Dec 2015

morning commute
the horizon bright
with headlights


A Hundred Gourds March 2016

date night
I run a comb through
my reflection


failed haiku v. 1 i. 1

October rain
Captain America
shields his candy


bottle rockets 34

splashing
in the birdbath
April rain

cattails Jan. 2016

back roads
we drive further
into ourselves


Yanty's Butterfly

night shift
the grocer feeds a family
of mice


failed haiku, volume 1, issue 1

freed
of its cage
of ribs


Modern Haiku 47.1

a missile
the width of my finger
on the button


bottle rockets 34

all the things
I thought I knew
these dying
leaves
brittle in my fingers


Bright Stars 7

trying to
clear a path from
the past
yesterday's snow
heavy in his shovel


hedgerow 20

watching
for her return
another
snowflake melts
on my window


hedgerow 20

speeding through
a yellow light
that old
desire to be
anywhere but here


Atlas Poetica 21

a la-z-boy
left by the curb
with no
words between us
I read my wife's mind


Atlas Poetica 21

al niente
mom's piano
up for sale


A Hundred Gourds, Dec 2015

autumn dawn
the apple tree
ripe with robins


A Hundred Gourds, Dec 2015

night fishing
he casts a line
at last call


Prune Juice, November 2015

financial times
the red light district
in the black


Prune Juice, Nov. 2015