• TV Light Makes My Black Tea Blood Red

    There is a call to action. And then there is the complete paralysis of disbelief.

  • On Poetry Pea

    You know how much I fan-girl over Poetry Pea podcast. The podcast host Patricia McGuire has guided me (and many others I’m sure) through the haikai path with her insightful observations, her unmatched haiku reading and her trailblazer guests the past couple of years when I started writing haiku, senryu and other haikai poetry forms.…

  • Hope and such

    I’m sitting looking out at a damp day, in an unusually warm February.  This month is a time it normally snows, and the cold and gray seems to seep through the pores of the skin. There are some dreams that keep me going. The superlative journal of Triveni Haikai India, haikuKATHA which publishes some of…

  • A glowing new year

     Here’s wishing all my readers a beautiful new year’s day!  It is always a pleasure when the carefully curated Glomag is published. A meeting place for numerous poets, this magazine is a collection of excellent poetry and I always feel honored to be included.  Read the issue released on Jan 1st 2023 here:  https://glomaglib.blogspot.com/ Here…

  • Collaborative split sequence with Reid Hepworth

      A split sequence is basically three haiku that links with the lines of one central haiku.  This was my second time collaborating with Reid, and we wanted a mellow mood with the ocean and its various avatars. Layers upon layers of different feelings surfaced.  These were mostly haiku. We were going to send it…