Haiku Society of America

Haiku Society of America Haiku Award
in Memorial of Harold G. Henderson

1982

First Place:

              horizon
wild swan drifting through
      the woman's body

Raymond Roseliep

 

Second Place:

deserted wharf
the mime bows
to the moon

Chuck Brickley

 

Third Place:

a spider's web
across the windharp
the silence

Elizabeth Searle Lamb

 

Honorable Mention:

under the back steps
     catfish still flop in the pail—
          the long August night

Rita Z. Mazur

 

Honorable Mention:

horns fold
at my shadow's touch;
brown slug

Darold D. Braida

 

Honorable Mention:

      early April rain
that woman fills every jar,
    seals them forever

Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg

 

Honorable Mention:

dead mynah bird . . .
with each passing car
its wing flaps

Darold D. Braida

 

Honorable Mention:

Picking cotton—
      the memory
           of birdtracks in the snow

Edward P. Willey

 

Honorable Mention:

Old tea bag;
     tints the moon
          slightly

Garry Gay

 

Honorable Mention:

blackened walnut
left unopened—
winter solstice

David E. Evans

 

Honorable Mention:

Distant woodchopper
inside the cabin
axbite echoes

Thelma Murphy

 

Honorable Mention:

    The grey cranes at dusk—
bending in a line along
     the crooked fenceposts

Richard Bodner

 

Honorable Mention:

checking for water
the woman finds a full moon
trapped in the cistern

L.A. Davidson