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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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A haiku is presented on faded yellow paper and illustrated with a sumi-e painting of ibises in dry grass.

It reads

rounding the bend - 
twenty ibises 
in bone-dry grass

A haiku is presented on faded yellow paper and illustrated with a sumi-e painting of ibises in dry grass. It reads rounding the bend - twenty ibises in bone-dry grass

rounding the bend -
twenty ibises
in bone-dry grass

More haiku and haibun here: kasasagi.blog

21.02.2026 03:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Two people climbing ginormous ice cliffs on Lake Michigan. The ice cliffs and icy water appear a muted cornflower blue. A  golden orange sunset glows off in the distance.

Two people climbing ginormous ice cliffs on Lake Michigan. The ice cliffs and icy water appear a muted cornflower blue. A golden orange sunset glows off in the distance.

evening sunโ€”
two climbers
still climbing

#haiku #senryu #nature
#peopleofbluesky #LakeMichigan

21.02.2026 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 232    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

warm Friday evening
the marching band enters
our living room

โ€”Doug Belleville
๐˜”๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ถ 57.1

๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ editor Paul Miller

#haiku

11.02.2026 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks very much for including me!!!

19.02.2026 08:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pachinko, Sour Grapes and Rabbits a fallen petals post.

Pachinko, Sour Grapes and Rabbits
- latest fallen petals post. In depth commentary on Bluesky Haiku

Poets: @ashcapes.bsky.social
@haikupoet.bsky.social
@jennfel.bsky.social
@robert-kingston.bsky.social
@marshallbood.bsky.social
@wolftwinthomas.bsky.social

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19.02.2026 03:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Thanks!!!

16.02.2026 03:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A girl is born
then twisted, unfolds 
a gluttonous body, popping 

each beachball moon 
into a wide yellow mouth. 
Once, I could 

peel back the face of a planet 
like a clementine or sit 
in a creek & abstract

A girl is born then twisted, unfolds a gluttonous body, popping each beachball moon into a wide yellow mouth. Once, I could peel back the face of a planet like a clementine or sit in a creek & abstract

"How to fight embodiment? Expand / against embrace, shake radiation like a dog, / strip, condense, reconfigure."

A poem by ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฎ ๐—ฅ๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป in the Fall 2025 issue

bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

#poetry #poetrycommunity

05.01.2026 13:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
They say things come back 
to where theyโ€™d been before,
like some sort of comet feelings.
You just need to know how to wait 
for them, you need to wear out,
standing still, countless pairs of boots.

This means the acacia tree
that was cut last fall
will shoot up briefly
from its old root.
That you will love me again
in a few billion light years.

They say things come back to where theyโ€™d been before, like some sort of comet feelings. You just need to know how to wait for them, you need to wear out, standing still, countless pairs of boots. This means the acacia tree that was cut last fall will shoot up briefly from its old root. That you will love me again in a few billion light years.

Read ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’Š๐’• by ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ง ๐’๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐œ๐ฎ (transl. ๐ƒ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ž๐ฅ ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐๐ž๐ง ๐๐ž๐ฆ๐จ) in the Fall issue

bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

#poetry #poetrycommunity #translation #Romanian

03.02.2026 13:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

2 poems accepted in Queenโ€™s Quarterly in January 2025 will appear in the spring and summer issue of this year โ€” my longest wait between acceptance and publication. Very excited to be included!

16.02.2026 02:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A haiku presented on faded yellow paper, illustrated by a sumi-e painting of a double wooden door with withered pot plants either side.

It reads:

slaughterhouse door-
a row of withered 
houseplants

A haiku presented on faded yellow paper, illustrated by a sumi-e painting of a double wooden door with withered pot plants either side. It reads: slaughterhouse door- a row of withered houseplants

slaughterhouse door-
a row of withered
houseplants

#haiku #poetry

15.02.2026 04:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

sidewalk cafe
the rain turns us all
into friends

#PJJournal
#prompt 14
#WritingCommunity
#poetrycommunity
#senryu

12.02.2026 20:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 70    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

a ball of snow
twitches
then hops away

Wales Haiku Journal(2020)

#haiku

16.02.2026 02:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I got a new poem published in the latest issue of Blue Earth Review. Itโ€™s called โ€œThe Rite-Aid Has Become a Spirit Halloweenโ€

29.01.2026 15:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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WINTER 2025 | home The Winter Edition of the Wales Haiku Journal. Featuring an array of haiku, monoku, haibun, haiga and commentary.

a doeโ€™s eyes
the briefest part
in the otherโ€™s story

โ€”๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ž๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ถ ๐˜‘๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ
Winter 25/26

#haiku
#WalesHaikuJournal

very grateful to Joe and Luci for including me, and for curating such a wonderful space

www.waleshaikujournal.com/winter2025

30.01.2026 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

cruise ship โ€”
the singer returns to the bar
for company

bottle rockets issue 42(2020)

#senryu #micropoetry #haiku

04.02.2026 23:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is in the latest Asahi Haikuist Network edited by Prof. David McMurray:

velvet engineer
a solitary mole
extends a grave

Lots more here: www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...

#haiku #micropoetry #nature

29.01.2026 23:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy to share my poem โ€œBulletโ€ from the new issue of @rattlepoetry.bsky.social

27.11.2025 09:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

breaking ice
in the frozen bird bath
this rusty ice pick
ย ย ย ย the guard of old fears
ย ย ย ย finding new purpose

#TankaThursday
#tanka #TankaPoem
#healing #micropoetry

22.01.2026 13:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 68    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good to meet you too!

20.01.2026 00:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Got accepted in the 2025 Red Moon Anthology today! Below is the one I had included in Red Moon 2013.

#haiku #micropoetry #dogs

19.01.2026 23:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Edna posing on her cat tree in front of city lights

#cats #catsofbluesky

18.01.2026 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

vape shop ...
a loonie Krazy Glued
to the sidewalk

Failed Haiku #8 August 2016

#senryu #micropoetry #poetry

18.01.2026 15:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Published in EPOCH magazine from Cornell University, and in one of my new manuscriptsโ€ฆ

03.12.2025 00:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
picture created by Cold Moon Journal

picture created by Cold Moon Journal

assigning hope
to all
dying leaves

โ€”Cold Moon Journal 01/12/26

12.01.2026 13:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

dead of winter ...
I line up empties
on the closed piano

FreeXpresSion Volume XVIIIโ€”Issue 3 March 2011

#senryu #micropoetry #winter

18.01.2026 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

a man sweeps
the drained fountainโ€ฆ
autumn chill

Hedgerow issue #151

#haiku #micropoetry

01.01.2026 14:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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there are no bad Jen Frantz poems

via Bennington Review

12.11.2025 14:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

december gloom
the longer the nights
the thicker the books

#haiku

24.12.2025 13:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

song stuck
in my head all night
rooftop rain

#dailyhaikuprompt night

25.12.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

a soft crackleโ€”
the turntable needle
between memories

#haikufeels
#haiku
#senryu

27.12.2025 15:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 123    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2