Joseph P. Wechselberger
Born 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Living in Browns Mills, New Jersey USA
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Joseph has been retired since March 2007. He began writing haiku in 2018 and is member of the Haiku Society of America. His work has been Touchstone nominated in 2021 and 2022 and has appeared in 33 haiku journals, Haiku 2022, and jar of rain: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2020.
without boundaries dandelion seeds
Frogpond 43.1, Winter 2020
schoolyard
how the saplings grew
over the summer
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
those first buds the spring after
Kingfisher 4, November 2021
the uncertain flutter
of a young starling's wings
morning mist
gibbous moon . . .
the trills of a screech owl
marking its turf
picking ticks
off the dog
honeysuckle heat
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