Michele Root-Bernstein

born in USA in 1953
lives in Michigan, USA

Michele Root-Bernstein devotes herself to haiku, haibun, and haiga. Her work appears in journals and anthologies at home and abroad and on three large rocks in Ohio. She has served as co-editor of Frogpond and book editor of Modern Haiku. Currently she facilitates the Evergreen Haiku study group in mid-Michigan.

summer’s end
the mother of the bride
holds an empty hat box

The Heron’s Nest Volume X, Number 1: March 2008

a flutter
in the doe’s flank
crocus in snow

The Heron’s Nest Volume XIV, Number 1: March 2012

the river’s mouth
no end to the end
of the journey

The Heron’s Nest Volume XIV, Number 3: September 2012

lilacs
the scent of the past
imperfect

The Heron’s Nest Volume XV, Number 1: March 2013

this morning
it takes the iris to open
forever

Acorn 31, Fall 2013

gathering dusk
all the colored pencils
back in their cup

Second Place, Harold G. Henderson Memorial Haiku Award 2017

deep snow
the whole day inside
myself