In And Out Of The Confessional Poem by Chen-ou Liu

My Dear Friends:

The Heron's Nest just announced the results of The Readers' Choice Awards for 2018. And I won a Popular Poet Award for the following four haiku published in 2018, and the "in and out" haiku was anthologized in a hole in the light: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2018:


her prognosis
the sound of his axe
striking logs

The Heron's Nest,20: 1, March 2018

in and out
of the confessional
winter light

The Heron's Nest,20: 1, March 2018
a hole in the light: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2018

winding road
the home she never
talks about

The Heron's Nest,20: 2, June 2018

smoky twilight
among the ruins
toy soldiers

The Heron's Nest,20: 3 September 2018