Tim Murphy
Born 1967 in Cork, Ireland
Living in Valencia, Spain
Bio: Tim Murphy has been writing haiku since 2016. His reviews of Japanese short-form collections have appeared in Kokako and Presence.
upward spiral
no one else ever knows
the whole story
firecracker!
kids play runaway knock
with a twist
Bottle Rockets 52, February 2025
swifts fly low
through the Alzira backstreets
early summer
sunny evening
another footbridge
is painted blue
Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2023
dry heat
a boy scrapes a stick
along the wall
Presence, 73, July 2022
new city
a childhood dream
my only map
Hedgerow 120, Summer 2017
paper cut
I notice
she lies easily
Acorn 39, Fall 2017
yellow aspens . . .
the river water bites
into silence
Under the Basho (Hokku section), May 2018
midsummer
in a restaurant sink
the clatter of plates
Frogpond 41:3, Fall 2018
rainy season
on the balcony ledge
a pigeon blinks
The Heron’s Nest Volume XX, Number 4: December 2018
for company
the snow crunch underfoot
winter solstice
Honorable Mention, Sixth Annual Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards
Published in The Heron’s Nest Annual Print Edition, Vol. 20 (2018)
in back of an idiom yellow canaries
Otata 45, September 2019,
anthologized in Lee Gurga & Scott Metz (eds.), Haiku 2020 (Modern Haiku Press, 2020)
late spring
the drugstore is sold out
of pregnancy tests
Modern Haiku 50:1, Winter–Spring 2019
Spanish morning
the knife-sharpener’s
music
The Mamba 9, March 2020
green parakeet
the park chess players talk
about the rules
Presence 69, March 2021,
anthologized in Pat Boran (ed.), Local Wonders: Poems from Our Immediate Surrounds (Dedalus Press, 2021)
visiting
civil war trenches
summer grass
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 4:2, Spring–Summer 2021,
anthologized in Pat Boran (ed.), Local Wonders: Poems from Our Immediate Surrounds (Dedalus Press, 2021)
autumn rain listening again to the Goldberg Variations
Whiptail 1, November 2021
housecleaning —
I shed some more
wounded skin
Prune Juice 35, November 2021