mist

over the lake

slowly I unfold

*Published in the February 2019 issue of Stardust Haiku 

old friend

the coffee

a bit warmer

*Published by Haikuniverse (www.haikuniverse.com) on 2/22/19

yellow moon

lips tremble

with truth

*Published by Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective on 2/22/19

overslept

right and left

reversed

*Published by Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective on 2/18/19

still a sucker

for a compliment

pink camellia

*Published by Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective on 2/14/19

lush quietude

just being

with my being

*Published by Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective on 2/10/19

Blank (Slate)

another trash bag has been filled, but I'm no closer to relief

unbecoming you

I become

an abstract

*Published by The Other Bunny on 2/4/19

those secret places

like the ones we find 

in our dreams

they have a way

of bringing us home

faster than cars

*Published in pieces of sky (the cherita book 18)

in my palm

every remnant of you

I scatter them

along the edge

of a faraway trail

with only a prayer

*Published in in my palm (the cherita book 22)

new year

every mountain

unchanged

*Published in the January 2019 issue of Stardust Haiku 

on the edge of Orion 

honey

no need for lipstick

*

another dimension D# as Gb or cerulean

*

electric rainbow in the thick of the body

*Published in the January 2019 edition of is/let

Step Zero

I buy a six-pack and blow through them. It's all right, I tell myself. I don't do this every day. Just a few times each week.

media spin

no one hears

the city burn

*Published in the January 2019 edition of Seedpods

**Honorable Mention in the UHTS Samurai Haibun Contest 2018

I promise

if you look

even closer

I am

more beautiful

than these scars

*Published in snow ghosts (the cherita book 21)

frost encases

each blade of grass

this belief

of not being enough

for you or myself

*Published in Issue #19 of Moonbathing

**Winner of the Editor’s Choice Award

sun after snow

may I never forget

your grace

*Published in the December 2018 issue of Stardust Haiku

splitting atoms

this magenta

behind words

*Selected for The Haiku Foundation’s Per Diem on 12/14/18

dry mouth

on this night

with no moon

is this how

our vows turn into

broken promises?

*Published in the stories (the cherita book 20)

find me

in the space

between breaths

between this world

and the one

you cannot see

*

after the divorce

naked became

mother's normal

so desperate for attention

she demanded it

from her children

*

to one, I am meek

to another, aggressive

my hands

are cut and tired

from holding your mirror

*

how twilight

blankets trees

ashamed

I cover

my aging body

*Published in Atlas Poetica 32

falling petals

slowly I embrace

my aging body 

*Sakura Award recipient in the 2018 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festial Haiku Invitational

fireworks

in the distance

serenity

*Published in the September 2018 issue of Stardust Haiku

no more grey

I finally call it

rape

life after trauma

even the tulips

cry obscenities 

*Published in #FemkuMag Issue Four

sunflower bed

dreaming

about stardust

*Published in A Sense of Place: Meadow/Field - Sight on The Haiku Foundation’s website

remembering

our first kiss

mountain's breath

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

bare branches

what the cancer

left behind

supernova

mother leaves

her body

*Published in Wales Haiku Journal, summer 2018

red velvet

a little mountain mist

on my tongue

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