How short can a piece of fiction be and still be considered a valid short story? Hemingway is famous for the misattributed, “For sale: baby shoes; never worn.”
I wanted to take it even further with a one-word short story. It was accepted for publication by Nanoism and can be read by clicking here!
A haibun of mine was featured in the latest issue of Contemporary Haibun Online. You can read it here!
I’m thrilled to have won the RESOBOX International Haiku Contest!
Here’s my winning entry:
lone streetlight
a firefly
flickers back
another tube
of acrylic
palette clouds
The theme for this week’s Haiku Dialogue was ambiguity. I came up with this:
Grandpa’s voice
a hole in the clouds
widening
Read the dialogue here.
Last week’s Haiku Dialogue’s theme was suchness. I came up with the following:
summer sunset
a firefly lingers
in the jar
You can read the other poet’s great work here!
church bells the sun rises on cue
Originally published here.
Trying to explain
how a panic attack feels
F5 tornado
Originally published here.
Recently, The Haiku Foundation began a new Haiku Dialogue series, this one with photo prompts instead of verbal prompts. Week 2’s photo depicted wild raspberries. Here’s what I came up with:
wild raspberries
childhood memories
ripening
You can read the other poets’ work here!
A few weeks back, The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue concluded with the theme of “a tacky souvenir.”
Here’s my contribution:
a new channel
in the Colorado River
cracked Grand Canyon mug
