autumn equinox . . .
the last sip
of chrysanthemum tea

Magnapoets 3 (January 2009)

i climb the mountain with my eyes never ending snow

Museum of Haiku Literature Award  Frogpond 17:4 (winter 1994)
and One Breath (Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 1995)

lonely tonight i drink all the moonbeams

Frogpond 18:1 (spring 1995)
and dew-on-line 4 (2002)

before the monk

& his walking stick

ageless mountain

60th Ueno Bashô Festival Contest (2006), Selected Haiku
and Mie Times 81 (December 2006–January 2007)

long rainy season —

reading the Kama Sutra

alone in bed

Frogpond 24:2 (2001)
and Erotic Haiku Book

night of silence

i find a river stone

in my pocket

11th HIA Haiku Contest (2009), Honorable Mention
and Akita International Haiku Network Web site

on the waterlily

remains of a dragonfly …

morning stillness

Evergreen English Haiku 12:4 (April 2002)

rain beating my umbrella i stop to gaze at tiger lilies

Frogpond 20:2 (September 1997)

winter mountains

i lose myself

in whiteness

Anita Sadler Weiss Memorial Haiku Awards 2009,
3rd Place

zen garden …

within each pebble

silence

Reeds 2 (2004)

autumn evening …

adding another star

to the Milky Way

The Heron's Nest 10:4 (December 2008)
In memoriam, William J. Higginson

bamboo whisk …

the tea master’s

fluid hands

HPNC Contest: Honorable Mention 2002
and Edge of Night (Red Moon Anthology 2003)

changing kimonos

between seasons…

my ordinary life

1st R.H. Blyth Award (World Haiku Club) 2002,
Honorable mention World Haiku Review 2:2 (July 2002)
1st With Words International Haiku Contest    Third Place (2008)

Christmas songs

deepening

the loneliness

Hummingbird 10:2 (December 1999)

deep autumn …

walking barefoot

on my mother's grave

White Lotus 9 (fall/winter 2009)