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Temple ConeTemple 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 five books of poetry: Sky Bright Psalms, Guzzle, That Singing, The Broken Meadow, and No Loneliness.


 

an argument
over breakfast
eggshells

Modern Haiku 51.3 (2020): 18.

a horse
kicks its stall
evening chill

Frogpond 44.3 (2020)

waxing moon
a black snake
lays her clutch

Modern Haiku 53.2 (2022)

one log left
beside the log-splitter
a sliver of moon

Honorable Mention, Henderson Haiku Award, Haiku Society of America (2023). 

holding our breaths
releasing them
humpbacks

Modern Haiku 55.2, Summer 2024

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

First Prize, The 2013 Harold G. Henderson Haiku Awards

city zoo
a wolf looks up
at snow

The Heron’s Nest, Volume XII, Number 1: March 2010 

autumn afternoon
mother touches
my thinning hair

The Heron’s Nest, Volume XII, Number 1: March 2010

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.

Daily Haiku, 7 December 2007

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