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Joseph P. WechselbergerJoseph P. Wechselberger

Born 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Living in Browns Mills, New Jersey USA
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Retired since 2007, Joseph is a member of the Haiku Society of America. Touchstone nominated in 2021, 2022, and 2023 (long-listed), his work has appeared in 46 haiku journals, various blogs and anthologies, Haiku 2022, and The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku for 2020, 2022 and 2023.


my view of the world
as a seven-year-old
spring flowers

Akitsu Quarterly, Summer 2022

crescent moon
his son falls asleep
counting stars

Presence, Issue 74, November 2022

pressed between pages
a violet
of some significance

Hedgerow: a journal of small poems, Issue 140, December 2022

moonrise the barcodes of winter trees

The Pan Haiku Review, Issue 1, 2023

New Year's Day
the train makes one last trip
around the Christmas tree

Chrysanthemum, Issue 30, Spring 2023

))) hUM ^^^ miNg bird ! >

Whiptail Journal, Issue 7, May 2023

warm summer day
my mother's hands
shelling peas

haikuNetra Journal, Issue 1.2, October 2023

autumn leaves—
the thrill of the first bike ride
without training wheels

Hedgerow: a journal of small poems, Issue 144, December 2023

climbing into
the Milky Way
mountain road

Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2024, January 2024

midnight
the scent of paperwhites
as the ball drops

Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2024, January 2024

plucking bits of sky from the meadow bluets

Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2024, April 2024

where the trickle becomes a stream birdsong

Hedgerow: a journal of small poems, Issue 146, August 2024

a taste of what the hummingbird's tasting honeysuckle

Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2024, October 2024

filtered sun
a dragonfly explores
an open page of Issa

Leaf, Issue Five, December 2024

that time of year
when the fiddleheads sprout
a gray vixen and her kits

Leaf, Issue Five, December 2024

without boundaries dandelion seeds

Frogpond  43.1, Winter 2020

schoolyard
how the saplings grew
over the summer

The Heron's Nest  Volume XXII, Number 1: March 2020

tendrils of fog
the long neck
of the blue heron

Modern Haiku 51.1, Winter Spring 2020

beach plums . . .
the taste of salt
on skin

Acorn 46, Spring 2021

4th of July
beyond fireworks
shooting stars

Stardust 55, July 2021

those first buds the spring after

Kingfisher 4, November 2021

the uncertain flutter
of a young starling's wings
morning mist

Blōō Outlier Journal 3, Summer 2022

gibbous moon . . .
the trills of a screech owl
marking its turf

Blōō Outlier Journal 3, Summer 2022

picking ticks
off the dog
honeysuckle heat

Blōō Outlier Journal 3, Summer 2022

All Soul's Day
snow drifts through cracks
in the old barn

Hedgerow: a journal of small poems 136, December 2021

summer fling
the bittersweet taste
of beach plums

Modern Haiku 53.1, Winter Spring

storm warning –
a snowy owl turns its back
to the wind

Hedgerow: a journal of small poems 137, January 2022

forgotten battleground –
a field of wild poppies
fills with sun

Akitsu Quarterly, Spring 2022

transcribed across backyard snow the calligraphy of sparrows

Whiptail Journal 2, February 2022

a spider web
spanning two pines
the flutter of a moth

Akitsu Quarterly, Fall 2022

before others
are even awake
morning glories

Akitsu Quarterly, Fall 2022

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