Tim Murphy
Born 1967 in Cork, Ireland
Living in Madrid, Spain
Bio: Tim Murphy has been writing haiku since 2017. His reviews of haiku collections appear regularly in the journal, Presence.
new city
a childhood dream
my only map
Hedgerow 120, Summer 2017
paper cut
I notice
she lies easily
Acorn 39, Fall 2017
yellow aspens . . .
the river water bites
into silence
Under the Basho (Hokku section), May 2018
midsummer
in a restaurant sink
the clatter of plates
Frogpond 41:3, Fall 2018
rainy season
on the balcony ledge
a pigeon blinks
The Heron’s Nest Volume XX, Number 4: December 2018
for company
the snow crunch underfoot
winter solstice
Honorable Mention, Sixth Annual Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards
Published in The Heron’s Nest Annual Print Edition, Vol. 20 (2018)
in back of an idiom yellow canaries
Otata 45, September 2019,
anthologized in Lee Gurga & Scott Metz (eds.), Haiku 2020 (Modern Haiku Press, 2020)
late spring
the drugstore is sold out
of pregnancy tests
Modern Haiku 50:1, Winter–Spring 2019
Spanish morning
the knife-sharpener’s
music
The Mamba 9, March 2020
green parakeet
the park chess players talk
about the rules
Presence 69, March 2021,
anthologized in Pat Boran (ed.), Local Wonders: Poems from Our Immediate Surrounds (Dedalus Press, 2021)
visiting
civil war trenches
summer grass
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 4:2, Spring–Summer 2021,
anthologized in Pat Boran (ed.), Local Wonders: Poems from Our Immediate Surrounds (Dedalus Press, 2021)
autumn rain listening again to the Goldberg Variations
Whiptail 1, November 2021
housecleaning —
I shed some more
wounded skin
Prune Juice 35, November 2021
loud rain
telling secrets
through art
Cold Moon Journal, November 2021
window creak
the comfort
of soft autumn rain
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 5:1, Autumn–Winter 2021–22
puffing up
an extra cushion
hard rain
Modern Haiku 53:1, Winter–Spring 2022
overhearing
a strange conversation
winter dusk
Cold Moon Journal, February 2022