Joseph 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
New Year's Day
the train makes one last trip
around the Christmas tree
Chrysanthemum, Issue 30, Spring 2023
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warm summer day
my mother's hands
shelling peas
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
midnight
the scent of paperwhites
as the ball drops
plucking bits of sky from the meadow bluets
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
filtered sun
a dragonfly explores
an open page of Issa
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
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