Jim Kacian
Born 1953 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Living in Winchester, Virginia, USA
http://www.redmoonpress.com
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dimming the glow of minnows my shadow
GDS, 2010
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aurora a long night of poems
GDS, 2010
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Holy Week –
the votive gives up
smoke
2nd Prize—Odzaci Contest, 2003
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nothing to buy summer
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a cloud
bigger than the sky –
spring longing
2nd Prize—Kusamakura International Haiku Contest, 2003 (Arima's First Choice)
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dusklight I am of two minds
Whitelotus, 2007
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shifting clouds –
a school of minnows
becomes one shine
South by Southeast 10:1
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pleasantly drunk fireflies come out of the moon
1st Honorable Mention—Kaji Aso Haiku Contest, 2006
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just past mauve –
paddling hard
for a dark shore
1st Prize—Ukia Haiku Contest, 2007
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the gray of the stone church the same as the graves morning rain
South by Southeast 10:1
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gathering balls
in the last light –
end of summer
The Baseball Haiku Anthology
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midsummer heat
a dragonfly dips her mate
into the pond
Lily Pond Anthology
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down the mountain –
the bumpy flight
of the falcon’s shadow
Border Lands
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old map
the whole country
one color
Cranach City Anthology; Border Lands
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first frost
the hard set
of her mouth
Commended New Zealand Poetry Society Haiku Contest, 2006
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air bubbles
in lake ice
the shortest day
Honorable Mention—Robert Frost Haiku Contest 2006; HSA Members' Anthology, 2006
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winterlight
a scraped knuckle
barely bleeds
Honorable Mention—Basho Contest, 2003
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bread soaks up
the last of the soup—
farewell meal
World Saijiki 2003 Shimizu Haiga Border Lands
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how it slides
off the tongue
“paralysis”
Mariposa 7
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snow falling
all the directions
of the air
First Prize—Winter Moon Awards
Semi-Finals—Ito En Contest, 2014
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rain on snow
how it absorbs
me
Boston Prize—Kaji Aso, 2005
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thumbprint left
in the candle wax—
August heat
Haiku: Poetry Ancient & Modern
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sundown trolling the whole way in
Notes from the Gean 1:1
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equinox
a spatter of rain starts up
and stops
Mariposa 9
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driving behind
the garbage truck
summer deepens
Kernels Online 1:1
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televised war—
how slowly light comes
around the world
Simply Haiku 2; A-Bomb Memorial 37 Selection Haiku Reality Website
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summer dusk
a tinge of red
in the tomatoes
Haiku Reality Website; LA (Irish newspaper ed. Gabriel Rosenstock), 2004
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Easter break—
returning to the place
where salmon return
1st Prize Hawaii Education Association Contest, 2006
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nightingale sings his throat open
Notes from the Gean 1:1
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city morning
a crane lifts its shadow
up the wall
Simply Haiku Vol. 1 No. 2, 2003
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i hope i’m right where the river ice ends
Frogpond 35:2
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the large gone and in its place empty
Roadrunner 13.1
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it won’t end
and it won’t get better—
crow’s caw
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almost too dark to see bats
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catch and release
a little shine left
on my fingers
the heron's nest XIV:1
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her words inventing another piece of my mind
roadrunner 11:2
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no nillies without willies the wild tornado night
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older than god
the cave mouth
to hell
roadrunner 11:1
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the earth mother and always some question who’s the father
Haiku North America Anthology 2011
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out of place just in time
palimpsest - Red Moon Press, 2011
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a maw with feathers spring
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somewhere becoming rain becoming somewhere
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night rumblings
heavy freight being moved
in the dark
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no there there dark matter
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waiting for the now thunder when the time comes