mountainside joyride

just me

and the scent of ahh

*Published in A Sense of Place: Mountain - Smell on The Haiku Foundation’s website

evening prayer

one by one

stars appear

*Published in the August 2018 issue of Stardust Haiku

thunder rattles

each window pane

you ask

when I learned

to fight back

*Published in Stacking Stones: An Anthology of Short Tanka Sequences. The above is my contribution to a sequence titled "Becoming" in collaboration with Christina Sng, Jessica Malone Latham, Josie Hibbing, Mary Hohlman, and Susan Burch. 

mountaintop

all I hear

is your breath

*Published in A Sense of Place: Mountain - Hearing on The Haiku Foundation's website

fatherly advice

he tells me to read

Story of O

missing mom

I become

his wife

*Published in #FemkuMag Issue Three

frilly things

you always liked

the pink one

but I ask you

to take me

as I am

*

four years later

her ashes sit

in my closet

now covered

with the same dust

as her bones

*Published in not a memory, exactly (the cherita book 15)

I am happy to announce that I am a semifinalist in the March Art of Haiku contest sponsored by ITO EN North America. You can view my poem, along with the other semifinalists, here. Additionally, my poem was published in the Japanese newspaper, the Shukan NY Seikatsu, on 8/25/18.

wildfire

I take my truth

to the masses

*Published by Haikuniverse (www.haikuniverse.com) on 8/4/18