Daniel Shank Cruz
Born: 1980, Bronx, New York, USA
Present residence: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Website address: danielshankcruz.com
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Biography: Daniel Shank Cruz (they/multitudes) grew up in the Bronx. Multitudes is the author of a good possible year for an apocalypse: poems (Red Moon Press, 2025). With James Knippen, they are the co-author of It Breaks Your Heart: Haiku and Senryu on the 2023 New York Mets (Redheaded Press, 2024).
crossing the street the constellation of stickers on the light pole
Blithe Spirit 36.2, May 2026.
rain against the window the sound of society collapsing
Frogpond 48.2, Spring/Summer 2025
packing for the wedding my childlessness
Saturday sunbeam on his boricua neck scent of sex
Cold Moon
the tundra
of my depression
Blithe Spirit 35.1, February 2025
pennant race
the cameraman focuses
on the full moon
slow enough to count the dandelions new cane
Modern Haiku 55.3, Autumn 2024
twilight
the glow
of her text
Modern Haiku 55.2, Summer 2024
in season watermelon emojis
Acorn 52, Spring 2024
May Day another book ban
Modern Haiku 54.3, Autumn 2023.
outside my window
pigeons and
the new Beyoncé album
Kingfisher 6, October 2022
Memorial Day
embers
another mass shooting
Modern Haiku 53.3, Autumn 2022.
brownout weather
the bodega
out of milk
Kingfisher 4, October 2021
pandemic
no tan lines
where I wear my watch
Frogpond 44.1, Winter 2021
back-to-school sale
he doesn’t
text back
Kingfisher 2, December 2020