smoke
stars fading
to fire
Author: Marilyn Ashbaugh
Marilyn Ashbaugh's haiku, haibun, haiga and tanka appear in journals and anthologies dedicated to these forms. One of her haiku was shortlisted for the 2021 Touchstone Award for Individual Poems. She is the haiku editor at Under the Basho.
small talk
a tongue of fog
creeps up the coast
(Originally published online in Ginza Poetry Society Kukai)
photo album
dusting off
an old boyfriend
high tide
a ghost crab
unearths the stars