Welcome to the February 2022 issue of brass bell: a haiku journal.
This month there is no particular theme. Each poem is just one line long (or even a single word!) . . . revealing meaning and depth in a deceptively simple form.
Contributing poets are from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States
tracing the snail’s trail moonlight
Adjei Agyei-Baah
the night air menu of roasted chestnuts
ai li
backing up on the car roof a cat
Alan Bern
rain spills into darkness now and then snow
Alan Peat
overgrown driveway the butterflies hold a fashion show
Alan Summers
shape of grandma rising dough
Alexis Rotella
in my pockets grains of sand from last year
Angela Giordano
moonlight on my hand a mantis
Angiola Inglese
black wheelbarrow balanced on its front edge to teach me a lesson
Ann Carter
small joys woodpeckers at the suet feeder again
Antonia Matthew
socked in for another day brain fog
Barbara Kaufmann
rearview mirror the homestead comes into focus
Barbara Sabol
shaking the down quilt out flies the mad cat
Barrie Levine
big heads on skinny necks tulips quietly defying gravity
Blue Waters
the bench’s shadow empty too
Brad Bennett
house move zen garden in sandbags
Bryan D. Cook
shrinking on a stone the crab-shaped wet spot
Bryan Rickert
brother’s birthday today I search for the moon
C. Robin Janning
whiteout the universe inside me
Carole MacRury
again and again wild strawberries
Caroline Skanne
his aloha shirt my migraine
Charles Trumbull
cuttlefish threatened collecting some ink
Chen Xiaoou
blizzardalonetogetherduringrushhour
Chen-ou Liu
the hand pump water trickles first poem
Christina Chin
desperate birdsong news just in
Christina Martin
dusty old diaries half-lost memories
Christina Sng
clothespin holding on to nothing
Christine L. Villa
broken shell the sting of each wave
Claire Vogel Camargo
starless night at a single window the insomniac light bulb
Dan Iulian
driving back home sweet chili chips
Daniela Misso
winds of change i take refuge inside myself
Debbie Strange
bees white iris wraps their wings in nightfall
Deborah Burke Henderson
winter wind weeds lean
Donna Fleischer
playing tennis the back and forth in my mind
Elena Calvo
mayflies rise at dusk last dance
Frank Muller
birthday hug grandma’s peppermint breath
Geethanjali Rajan
wobbling on one foot I tug on the other slipper
Glenn Ingersoll
scarecity
Helen Buckingham
social exclusion growing on the tree lichen
Hifsa Ashraf
timing my dash to a soft-boiled egg
Jack Goldman
what it takes to bend me bamboo
Jackie Chou
lonely day i get a call from a robot
Jay Friedenberg
snow falling all day long
Jill Lange
a long winter suddenly shorter violets in the snow
Jim Mazza
ill but not ill enough surgery delayed
Joan Leotta
escalator back and forth between us
Joanna Ashwell
a curled strand of her hair on my pillow crescent moon
Joe Sebastian
my granddaughter wears her cat as if it were a shawl
Joel Savishinksy
even the junk store’s sign cobwebbed
John J. Dunphy
never the same dance twice breakwater
Julie Bloss Kelsey
the beveled mirror of loneliness
Karla Linn Merrifield
ancient salt ponds on mars our mother’s tears
Kath Abela Wilson
new roof i miss the moss
Kathleen Kramer
two years from eighty a weighty birthday
Katya Sabaroff Taylor
night walk startled by the whiteness of a moth
kris moon
off in their own little world apple buds
Kristen Lindquist
dreaming on my own paperboat I sail
Lakshmi Iyer
ten thousand years the lake misses its glacier
Laurinda Lind
droplets of smudged sky Monet lilies
Lorraine A Padden
waking up the reflection in the mirror looks like my mother
Lucia Cardillo
not letting a word in cicadas
Madhuri Pillai
legos all her family together
Margaret Walker
seagullsssssskimmmmmmmingblueskyclouds
Marianne Paul
sliding into sea sliding into sea sliding
Marietta McGregor
more gulls than sea ebb tide
Marilyn Ashbaugh
river canyon swarm of swallows swoop from its mouth
Marilyn Fleming
blind-sided the silent swoop of nesting magpies
Marilyn Humbert
reflected light in the broken pane a spiderweb
Marta Chocilowska
saving face a little black mask with or without pearls
Mary Kendall
my hair whiter one snowflake at a time
Maya Daneva
a furry Buddha in fresh snow hobo cat greets the sun
Michael Flanagan
polite words of lost friendship
Michael Gallagher
car in the shop another book read
Michael G. Smith
long journey steamy windows introspection
Mimi Foyle
children’s room I rearrange memories
Mirela Brailean
dropping pebbles from the footbridge my daughter’s daughter
Miriam Sagan
raindrops raindrops raindrops worm raindrops raindrops
Nancy Shires
perch for the robin’s song snowman’s hat
Neena Singh
a corsage for myself just because
Pat Davis
cracked bindings a bibliophile’s sneeze
Paul Beech
bottom of the ravine my eyes swim upstream
Paul Callus
white swan somewhere a ballerina is missing
Pris Campbell
after party the lingering polite words
Richard L. Matta
visiting for the smell overstocked bookshop
Robert Epstein
waiting room reading the back of the sugar packet
Rosa Clement
nursing home forced forsythia
Ruth Yarrow
brushing snow from the day’s mail catalogs showing bathing suits
Sue Norvell
making googly eyes at him pet rock
Susan Burch
writing at dawn the shadow of my pencil on the blue-lined page
Teresa Yatsko
a fly trapped in revolving doors morning rush
Theresa A. Cancro
oh i have been the untamed river
Tiffany Shaw-Diaz
comforting sight crows congregating in the winter oak
Tina Wright
shoe box or fireplace love letters
Tom Bierovic
a lucky penny where it landed
Tom Clausen
moon meditation in dreams the small stars grow
Vibeke Laier
after many years the wider shadow of the olive tree
Wieslaw Karlinski
in the apple tree picking our favorite branches
Wilda Morris
she turns the fan to face me this small act of tenderness
Zee Zahava
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
one-line haiku
