Author: Alan S. Bridges

Alan S. Bridges began writing haiku in 2008 after a chance meeting with poet John Stevenson, Managing Editor of The Heron's Nest, on a cross-America train trip. Alan especially likes train and fishing haiku, and is assembling haiku for a book. Alan's haiku have been published widely and he won the 2013 Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition. In 2014 he was named a judge of the Haiku Society of America Gerald Brady Senryu Contest and won an honorable mention for the 25th ITO EN Oi Ocha New Haiku Contest-- His haiku will appear on ITO EN bottles of green tea later in 2015. Also in 2015, Alan won first prize for the Kaji Aso Studio International Haiku Contest.

mountain hollow
a sway in the back
of the old draft horse

hospice
the head-tilt
of a tulip

commuting to work the iambs of trains

first violin–
the play of stage lights
on frayed horsehair

Ancestors’ Day–
sandals pile up
in the entryway

dark passage the winter inside me

the part of
   town th
    at us
      ed to
        be h
          er
        e