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