Charles Trumbull
born May 17, 1943, Flint, Michigan, U.S.A. Now resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Email: trumbullcp [at] comcast [dot] net.
Dr. Charles Trumbull is retired from research, writing, editorial, and publishing positions at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Encyclopædia Britannica. He is past president of the Haiku Society of America and retired editor of Modern Haiku. His chapbook Between the Chimes was published in 2011, and A Five-Balloon Morning, a book of New Mexico haiku, appeared in June 2013. A History of Modern Haiku came out in 2019. These days he divides his time between his Haiku Database and Haikupedia, the online encyclopedia of haiku.
Two Grey Hills
following the spirit line
out
Kingfisher 9 (April 2024)
Armed Forces Day —
the veteran salutes
with his good hand
Gregory Longenecker, ed., Origami Butterflies: The Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Members’ Anthology 2024
arbor vitae mortuus est
Password 1:1 (January 2024)
Advent —
I give the persimmon
another squeeze
Kingfisher 7 (April 2023)
just as suddenly
trillium
Kingfisher 5 (April 2022)
at the far end
of the infinity pool
a bather disappears
Kingfisher 5 (April 2022)
one wave
one surfer
one
Otata 1 (January 31, 2016)
remaining snow
a bald eagle soars
over the Rio Grande
Scott Wiggerman and Constance Campbell, eds., Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku & Haiga (2013)
not-quite-full moon this night of yearning
Trumbull, Transit of Venus: New Haiku & Senryu (self-published sheet, 2012); Brass Bell, September 2014
New Year’s —
the cat yowls to go out
to come in
Frogpond 35:2 (Spring–Summer 2012)
shortest night making the most of it
From the sequence “Moonlight on a White Iris,” New Mexico Poetry Review 2:2 (Spring 2011)
fifty-two percent of your body is water spring rain
Trumbull, The Orb Weaver’s Web: New Haiku (self-published sheet, 2010)
softly
a crèche song
second-day moon
Modern Haiku 38:2 (Summer 2007)
once more the two boys
flip the stinkbug on his back —
dog days of summer
Trumbull, Bugs (Haiku Canada Sheet), 2006
flurries . . .
a child asks if he can ride
in the hearse too
Acorn 13 (Fall 2004)
dark winter morning
carrying the old dog
back into the house
Snapshots 10 (2004)
pulling fence wire
now and then
the rasp of a locust
Bottle Rockets 6 (Spring/Summer 2002)
pansies we smile back
Modern Haiku 33:2 (Summer 2002)
tangled in the neighbor’s
Halloween cobwebs
his American flag
South by Southeast 9:1 (2002); Jim Kacian et al., eds., Pegging the Wind (Red Moon Anthology 2002)
the swell of her breast
against the watered silk —
summer moon
Modern Haiku 33:1 (Winter–Spring 2002)
October chill
a squirrel browses for food
along the third rail
Bottle Rockets 5 (Fall/Winter 2001)
between Lake Erie
and the nuclear station
fireflies
The English Tanka & Haiku on Water, River, Lake and Sea Contest, 2001, First Prize
sunrise:
among the silent earth movers
a fawn
The Heron’s Nest 2:8 (August 2000), Editor’s Choice
first Christmas
without my mother
without my childhood
Trumbull, Unbroken Snow: Haiku for the Winter (self-published sheet, 1999); Trumbull, A Five-Balloon Morning (2013)
the bell rings
again the playground fills
with pigeons
The Heron’s Nest 1:2 (October 1999)
late to the office
my desk already piled high
with zucchini
South by Southeast 6:1 (February 1999)
we follow the fence
through knee-deep snowdrifts . . .
Pasternak’s grave
Modern Haiku 29:3 (Fall 1998)
my ancestor’s grave —
I linger there awhile
after the rain starts
Acorn 1 (Fall 1998)
nearly dusk . . .
the shadow of her tombstone
reaches his
1st International Kusamakura Haiku Competition, 1996, Special Selection
summer downpour —
the bronze boy in the park
keeps on peeing
Frogpond 19:2 (September 1996)