Matthew Moffett

Born in 1987 in Wyandotte, Michigan, USA
Living in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, USA

Matthew Moffett currently teaches Introduction to Academic Writing and Freshman Composition at Mid Michigan Community College, but hopes to someday teach a course devoted solely to haiku and related forms. He hopes you enjoy his poems!

woodpecker at dawn rattles off my to-do list

Hedgerow, Number 26: April 24, 2015

stepping into) sunrise (the day's agenda

Sonic Boom, Number 4: December, 2015

all our plans blown slanted rain

A Splash of Water: HSA Members' Anthology 2015, Haiku Society of America 2015

sweat bees at the trash can buzzing academic guilt

Sonic Boom, Number 6: August, 2016

sidewalk ice until we know if the medicine's working

Modern Haiku Volume 46, Number 2: Summer 2016

wind through falling leaves my bones unlike a sparrow's

Bones 11 - Nov. 2016

a bit rusty squeak of his grandkids swinging

Hedgerow, Number 86: July 15, 2016

winter bones the body doesn't forget

Full of Moonlight: HSA Members' Anthology 2016, Haiku Society of America 2016

yesterdaylilies

Frogpond, Volume 39, Number 3: Autumn 2016

dust motes floating in sunlight our ten year plan

Right Hand Pointing, Number 95: February, 2016

such a thing as too clean the wind's incision

Frogpond, Volume 38, Number 3: Autumn 2015

to pick my teeth with its splinters hunger moon

Right Hand Pointing, Number 95: February, 2016

cornstalks offering themselves upwards as if

Sonic Boom, Number 5: April, 2016

what's left unsaid inside the smell of rain

Modern Haiku, Volume 47, Number 1: Winter/Spring 2016

regardless of its name ditch lily

tinywords, Volume 16, Number 2: November 2016

the universe! in each snowflake

Hedgerow, Number 31: April 24, 2015

after the ultrasound everything in bloom

Right Hand Pointing, Number 107: February 2017