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Marshall Bood

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poet and author of Spring Cleaning(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021) Order here: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/spring-cleaning/

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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social · Aug 6

empty signboard,
empty parking lot …
autumn leaves

Hedgerow #149(2025)

#haiku #senryu #micropoetry

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today's Featured Poem:

"[may rain]" by Masaoka Shiki & translated from Japanese by Abby Ryder-Huth from The Glass Clouding published by @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social

Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/may-rai...

[may rain]

and the hills of

spare.poems.com

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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 15d

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 23h

if only
we could avoid this talk
. . . October rain

#DailyHaikuPrompt (avoid)
#haiku
#senryu

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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social · 4h

A haiku from Modern Haiku a few years ago

#haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#autumn #tanka

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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social · 6d

A break from Edna’s morning zoomies

#cats #cute

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 8d

country road
turning up the volume
of stars

—The Heron’s Nest, Volume XXVI, Number 4: December 2024

#haiku

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Amy Borgman @ireneaddie.bsky.social · 11d

autumn chill—
the sun setting
on the orb weaver

#haiku #haikusaturday
#shahai #spiders

Orb weaver spider in a web in a south facing window with a reflection of trees and sky.

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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social · 9d

trains …
sometimes the sound
carries farther

Presence Issue 76(2023)

#haiku #micropoetry #senryu
#trains

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 17d

wildfire ash
the shopkeeper adjusts
her flowered mask

- Deborah A. Bennett
Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2024

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 14d

family reunion
revisiting my
imposter syndrome

—-Cold Moon Journal 09/18/25

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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social · 14d

rainy autumn…
a tea bag
steeps the sidewalk

Shamrock Haiku Journal #35(2016)

#haiku #senryu #micropoetry #autumn #tea

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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social · 14d

as if my opinions
are of any importance …
I shut the window
on a cold
autumn night

Presence 66(2020)

#tanka #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #autumn

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 19d

pointing out
the harvest moon—
my foster child

#DailyHaikuPrompt (harvest)
#haiku

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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social · 18d

giving up on insomnia she switches time zones

Failed Haiku 11 November, 2016

#senryu #haiku #tanka #micropoetry #insomnia #humour

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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social · 22d

how do we know
we are not already dead …
autumn leaves
that reappear
after the snowmelt

Presence 65(2019)

#tanka #micropoetry #haiku #death

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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 22d

Here’s my poem, “Barcelona, 1933,”published in The Westchester Review, from my forthcoming book, “The Lighthouse Tattoo,” (Acre Books, fall 2026).

www.westchesterreview.com/jose-hernand...

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · 23d

grateful to have three of my haiku appear in 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭, 09/13/25

—

oversteeped lilac
notes of bitter
in your whispers

a sip of earl grey
treefingers
cradling the moon

until
it is not birdsong
a child's why

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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks!

Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social · 25d

ruined building –
the doghouse in the shade
empty too

bottle rockets #48, February 2023

#haiku #micropoetry

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Nancy Huggett @nancyhuggett.bsky.social · Sep 3

Red leaves, mostly some gold & the turn that I was expecting but also made me laugh & cry.

pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Sep 2

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Present Tense
by Todd Dillard

My father’s telling me about his dog,
how it fell into a well
when they were walking down a wooded path.
His dog ran across some rotted planks,
the planks splintered, “And whoosh!”
my father says. “No more dog.”
I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M.
“I’m not finished,” he says.
He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket,
how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down,
and yelled for the dog to get in.
“But all I pulled up was more barking.”
“Dad,” I say. “This never happened.”
He says he can’t remember
how long he tried to get the dog
to shimmy into the bucket.
Just that at some point
when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“
as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“
he decided to give up.
“Dad,” I say. “It’s late.
I’m tired. And you’re dead.”
“Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!”
My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt
and pouring the dirt into the well.
And I know what he’s getting at, I know
he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket
he filled the well and
the dog jumped out. He’s going to say
something about how the dog
led him home through the dark.
I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.
“Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?”
I keep lowering the bucket
but all I ever pull up are leaves.
Red leaves. Lately, some gold.

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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social · 28d

autumn leaves …
I crack
open a bottle
of Aleve
in the coffeehouse

Hedgerow #131(2020)

#autumn #tanka #micropoetry
#humour #coffee #Aleve

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John Hawkhead @haikuhawk.bsky.social · Jul 21

At The Haiku Foundation …

stalemate war
each side deploys
its silent gods

Originally at Lavana Kray’s ‘Black and White Haiga website.

#senryu #haiku @haikufound.bsky.social

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Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social · Aug 30

Richard Siken

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · Aug 27

I’m delighted to have this piece make the long list of the latest installment of Haiku Dialogue, with the theme ‘No one is an Island’. Thanks so much to Guest Editor Marietta McGregor, and congratulations to all featured poets.

thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

A text based image of the poet’s selected poem. The poem reads:

pulling
away from the dock
last ferry

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John McCullough @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social · Jun 25

Excited to say my fifth collection of poems, Crowd Voltage, will be published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social in March 2026. It's a high-energy book about class, crowds and community. This specially designed cover is by the brilliant queer artist, Villain.

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