David Oates
Born 1956, New York City, New York, USA
Currently Athens, Georgia, USA
David Oates is the host and producer of Wordland radio show on WUGA and https://www.wuga.org. His books are Night of the Potato (fiction and poetry), Shifting with My Sandwich Hand, Drunken Robins, and The Deer's Bandanna (the last three, haiku). He teaches haikai forms, especially haiku and senryu.
my dead father’s mail
an offer of a warranty
for his car
Frogpond 43.1 Winter 2020
she walks in the meadow
a quail flies up
two hearts race
Drunken Robins, Brick Road Poetry Press, 2011
chemotherapy
she practices drawing on
eyebrows
Drunken Robins, Brick Road Poetry Press, 2011
blank computer screen
reflects bare sycamore branches
against a blue sky
Drunken Robins, Brick Road Poetry Press, 2011
ballet recital
pink feathers float
from dancers molting
Drunken Robins, Brick Road Poetry Press, 2011
when the policeman
turns off his body camera
fallen leaves
Haikuniverse September 21, 2020
autumn wind
after my daughter leaves
a car that looks like hers
Modern Haiku, Vol, 49.1 Winter-Spring 2018
across the gate
of the dead dog’s pen
one spider strand
Wales Haiku Journal Winter 2019
shining in the sun
plastic bags woven in
an osprey’s nest
depression
birds checking
the empty feeder
Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2021
she's gone
pink in the lint screen
for the last time
mayfly summer 2013
failed haiku 7-2020, issue #55
The Deer's Bandanna, Brick Road Poetry Press, 2019
yard by a busy street
all day, the dog chases cars
from behind the fence
The Deer's Bandanna, Brick Road Poetry Press, 2019
blue lights in the side mirror
a spider strand shifts and shines
over the glass
The Deer's Bandanna, Brick Road Poetry Press, 2019
in the doorway
at tap-dancing class
mother tries a step
Shifting with My Sandwich Hand, Monkey Books, 1999
small Christmas trees
on some plots
country graveyard
Mainichi Shimbun Annual Selection of Haiku 2018
on the white car
white dogwood petals
faintly yellow
Tuscaloosa Cherry Blossom Festival, Honorable Mention, 2017
first love
the sun strikes
a dusting of snow
summer woods
a young marine
hunts butterflies
World Haiku Review, June 2016 issue
chosen as a "haiku of merit" in the shintai category