Elizabeth Crocket
Country of birth: Canada
Currently resides: Ontario, Canada
Elizabeth is an award-winning Canadian poet, who has had two books shortlisted for the American Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. She won the 2nd annual Jane Reichhold Photographic Haiga Contest and won 2nd prize in the H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest. Elizabeth has been featured in the Haiku Foundation Haiga Galleries twice, showcasing her collage haiga and photo-haiga. She was co-judge of the Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Contest in 2020, and had a photo-haiga commissioned by the City of Burlington for an outdoor art and writing display. She has been widely published in most of the leading haiku journals, including Modern Haiku, Frogpond and Mayfly.
convalescent home
the familiar grasp
of nostalgia
at the beach
the umbrella
waves
wondering what's next
watching the squirrel
watching the toad
weaving sunshine
through my screen
a spider
NeverEnding Story (ed. by Chen-ou Liu) April 2018
another clean drawer
she organizes
her death
setting sun
he drinks from a glass
that isn't there