scent of rose

this fading

spring light

*Published in the May 2021 issue of Stardust Haiku

 the first lamp

flickers into being

her fingers trace

the rose waiting

for a lover

(Tim Gardiner & Tiffany Shaw-Diaz)

*

despite the hour

the loneliness

of her belief

a church bell rings

within sunset haze

(Tim Gardiner & Tiffany Shaw-Diaz)

*These tan renga were inspired by The flower seller by Sir Alfred Munnings and published in issue 12.1 of Twelve Rivers (a journal of the Suffolk Poetry Society)

 doormat

my descent

into nothingness

*Published in Door to Door: Doormat on The Haiku Foundation’s website

to be

in a

river of

to be

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 5/19/21

**Nominated for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Individual Poem Award by the editor

 nameless hunger

the night

shifts blue to black

*Published by horror senryu journal on 5/19/21

of course

the mountain

wasn’t always

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 5/15/21

**Selected for commentary in re:Virals 302 on The Haiku Foundation’s website

***Nominated for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Individual Poem Award by the editor

 turn of the knob a new life

*Published in Door to Door: Doorknob on The Haiku Foundation’s website

wild youth

i used to pull my

food from the earth

*

bowl of soup

when i just

need a hug

*

no regrets

i eat the whole

pint of ice cream

*Published in the May 2021 issue of brass bell: a haiku journal