• far from failed_haiku

    It has been a couple of months since the one of a kind haikai journal shut its doors. I have noticed it to be the fate of several journals these days, and wonder if it has to do with editor-burnout. One does get exhausted with taking care of life while at the same time running…

  • 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…

  • Three haiku

    I’ve always felt that if something happened three times, it’s a sign of sorts. So when my haiku got featured three weeks in succession, I looked for meaning behind it. For yours truly, whose confidence is usually skimming the bottom of the barrel, who usually has a bad case of the imposter syndrome, this felt…