2000
HAIKU (Judge: Laurie W. Stoelting)
First Place ($100)
wildfire
the thermometer climbs
all night
Carolyn Hall (San Francisco CA)
Second Place ($50)
morning rain—
an egg for my father
spreads in the skillet
Timothy Russell (Toronto OH)
Third Place ($25)
pear slice falling
to the kitchen floor
pale moonlight
paul m. (San Francisco CA)
Honorable Mentions (unranked)
snapdragons—
hearing the sound of
mother’s sandals
joan iversen goswell (Valencia PA)
childhood home
my concrete footprints
go nowhere
Ernest J. Berry (Picton, New Zealand)
cloudless sky
she cranks up
the big white umbrellas
Carolyn Hall (San Francisco CA)
SENRYU (Judge: Paul O. Williams)
First Place ($100)
open-air T’ai Chi –
the occasional clearing
of a raven’s throat
D. Claire Gallagher (Sunnyvale CA)
Honorable Mentions (unranked)
second heart attack
he’s careful now
hiding the polish sausage
Kay F. Anderson (Redwood City CA)
moving day
again, I pack the china
we never use
Geri Barton (Levittown NY)
nude beach—
the crowd around
the dead whale
Michael Dylan Welch (Foster City CA)
TANKA (Judge: Ebba Story)
First Place
alone with no moon
water-doused embers out
eyes closed . . . I drift . . .
in the dark within the dark
I see your bright face smiling
David Rice (Berkeley CA)
Honorable Mentions (unranked)
floating moon
all night your radiance
blinded me & yet at dawn
how crystalline the dew
on the chrysanthemums
Pamela A. Babusci (Rochester NY)
they say it has
as many seeds
as a human
has bones—
the shattered pomegranate
Veronica Johnston (San Francisco CA)
whirlwinds of wisteria
scattered
among last fall’s leaves . . .
my daughter’s friends share a joke
I don’t understand
Linda Jeanette Ward (Coinjock NC)