Author: Cherie Hunter Day

Cherie Hunter Day’s haiku and related forms have been widely published in journals and anthologies including: Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013); Where the River Goes (Snapshot Press, 2013); and Haiku 21 (Modern Haiku Press, 2011). Her third full-length haiku collection, for Want (Ornithopter Press, 2017) was shortlisted for The Haiky Foundation's Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards and received an Honorable Mention in the Haiku Society of America's Merit Book Awards.

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    spring wind

quiet pond
the dash-dot message
of waterlilies

summer dew
the spider’s focus
on home

Haiku: Cherie Hunter Day
Photograph: John Levy.

John Levy is a photographer and poet living in Tucson, Arizona. His most

polar vortex
an anchor of ice
steadies the lake

redwoods strengthening my password to blue sky

roadside assistance
Queen Anne’s lace brightening
my mood

autumn the panic room inside the oak

sultry night
slack spun into the line
of spider’s silk

drought the struggle legible in leaves

visitor sign-in
the unrelenting cheerfulness
of daffodils

migrating red knots
the return
of my heart murmur

stone paths the making of a pilgrim