sultry air
swifts catching
the invisible

—Tim Dwyer, Northern Ireland/USA

humid day
our hammock limp
until the bear

—Debbie Strange, Canada

sultry afternoon
a queue of birds
at the birdbath

—Tony Williams, Scotland, UK

August sparkles . . .
a little girl’s bike
outside the library

—Mark Gilbert, UK

over there her tiny finger shushes hummingbird

—Suzanne Leaf-Brock, United States

tiptoe reach
the best cherries
on the highest branch

—Leon Tefft, USA

south wind —
grandpa’s newspaper
on page one

—Martina Matijević, Croatia

rowing
through ripples of light
summer river

—Ruth Holzer, USA

About

Tim Dwyer’s Accepting The Call (templarpoetry.com), won the Straid Collection Award. In 2025 he was among the Europe Top 100 Haiku Authors. His poetry appears in Irish, UK and international journals. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, he lives in Bangor, Northern Ireland.

Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world. Her recent collection, “Random Blue Sparks” (Snapshot Press, 2024), placed first in Haiku Canada’s 2026 Marianne Bluger Book Awards and third in the Haiku Society of America’s 2025 Merit Book Awards. Please visit a publications/awards archive at debbiemstrange.blogspot.com for further information.

Tony lives in Scotland, UK and has been writing and being published for nearly six years. He has retired to spend more time in Nature.

Mark Gilbert enjoys writing short poetry and prose. He has recently published Variations on the Planets, a split-sequence sci-fi poetry chapbook with Eavonka Ettinger.

Suzanne Leaf-Brock writes prose and poetry and has had her haiku published in several journals. She lives with her husband and cocker spaniel on a farm near Ames, Iowa.

Leon Tefft is a poet and author of Wild Orchids, Haiku Evolution and Haiku Traditions from Greenville, South Carolina. He is a member of the Haiku Society of America and the Tanka Society of America. You can see more of Leon’s work and connect with him at leontefft.com.

Martina Matijević is a writer from Croatia.

Ruth Holzer’s haiku, tanka and haibun have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She lives in Virginia.

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