Tim Murphy
Born 1967 in Cork, Ireland
Living in Madrid, Spain
Bio: Tim Murphy has been writing haiku since 2017. His reviews of haiku collections appear regularly in the journal, Presence.
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new city
a childhood dream
my only map
Hedgerow 120, Summer 2017
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paper cut
I notice
she lies easily
Acorn 39, Fall 2017
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yellow aspens . . .
the river water bites
into silence
Under the Basho (Hokku section), May 2018
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midsummer
in a restaurant sink
the clatter of plates
Frogpond 41:3, Fall 2018
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rainy season
on the balcony ledge
a pigeon blinks
The Heron’s Nest Volume XX, Number 4: December 2018
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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)
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in back of an idiom yellow canaries
Otata 45, September 2019,
anthologized in Lee Gurga & Scott Metz (eds.), Haiku 2020 (Modern Haiku Press, 2020)
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late spring
the drugstore is sold out
of pregnancy tests
Modern Haiku 50:1, Winter–Spring 2019
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Spanish morning
the knife-sharpener’s
music
The Mamba 9, March 2020
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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)
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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)
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autumn rain listening again to the Goldberg Variations
Whiptail 1, November 2021
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housecleaning —
I shed some more
wounded skin
Prune Juice 35, November 2021
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loud rain
telling secrets
through art
Cold Moon Journal, November 2021
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window creak
the comfort
of soft autumn rain
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 5:1, Autumn–Winter 2021–22
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puffing up
an extra cushion
hard rain
Modern Haiku 53:1, Winter–Spring 2022
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overhearing
a strange conversation
winter dusk
Cold Moon Journal, February 2022