Temple Cone
Website: www.templecone.com
Temple Cone is Professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy and served as the inaugural Poet Laureate for the city of Annapolis.
He is the author of four books of poetry: Guzzle, That Singing, The Broken Meadow, and No Loneliness.
barn owl’s cry:
the darkness
pierced with wounds
Honorable Mention, The 2019 Harold G. Henderson Haiku Awards
flies wait it out
under a cow’s chin
spring shower
city zoo
a wolf looks up
at snow
autumn afternoon
mother touches
my thinning hair
sunrise
on a tackling sled —
line of soldiers
Modern Haiku 41.1: February 2010
pickup truck
deer in the rusty bed
a fine rain
Frogpond 31.3: Fall 2008
salamander
curls in the girl’s hand—
faint smile
Mayfly 44: 2007
O dust. O broom.
O sweeper made of dust.
O broom. O dust.