wet leaves
clinging to my shoes…
new resolutions
Author: Christopher Patchel
Christopher Patchel is an award-winning haikai poet whose work has appeared in leading journals, contests, and anthologies over the past twenty years. His collection, Turn Turn, was a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award finalist. From 2016 to 2018 he was editor of Frogpond, the journal of the Haiku Society of America. Apropos of his profession as a graphic artist, he created the cover art for Frogpond from 2012 to 2018.
granting me
an audience . . .
hermit thrush
cicada dusk
this death poem
will never do
sunshaft
a stab
of joy
afterglow…
the tingle
of sunburn