19 January 2026 (lazy snowflakes)
Kristen Lindquist
lazy snowflakes
the song sparrow tries
a short song
Book of Days
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18 January 2026 (Sunday hush)
Kristen Lindquist
Sunday hush . . .
crows poke around
in fresh snow
17 January 2026 (slow-falling snow)
Kristen Lindquist
slow-falling snow . . .
a nuthatch hangs head-down
on the spruce trunk
16 January 2026 (a few phrases of finch)
Kristen Lindquist
a few phrases of finch . . .
the river rock’s moss
stippled with snow
15 January 2026 (winter mist)
Kristen Lindquist
winter mist
trying to track the caws
to the crow
14 January 2026 - in memory of Bruce Ross
Kristen Lindquist
The haiku community lost Bruce Ross this week. He was a past president of the Haiku Society of America, founding editor of Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, and author/editor of Journey to the Interior: American Versions of Haibun; Writing Haiku; A Vast Sky: An Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku; Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku, and several haiku collections. Here are some of his haiku:
still winter field
the repeated bark of
a solitary crow
*
icy dawn . . .
the sparkling window frost
in the unused room
*
Thoreau’s gravesite:
the smell of woodsmoke
on the cold spring air
*
silence
the snow-covered rock
under winter stars
13 January 2026 (opting for)
Kristen Lindquist
opting for
the funny birthday card
January thaw
12 January 2026 (buzz of a junco)
Kristen Lindquist
buzz of a junco
from the underbrush —
polar gusts
11 January 2026 (just a sip)
Kristen Lindquist
just a sip
of chartreuse
moss under snow
10 January 2026 (the cove)
Kristen Lindquist
the cove flat calm
over the oyster racks
winter twilight
9 January 2026 (blue-sky morning)
Kristen Lindquist
blue-sky morning
snow sifts off the roof
of a passing car