Joseph P. Wechselberger, USA

Introducing : Joseph P. Wechselberger lives in Browns Mills, NJ USA, is happily retired 

since March 2007, and is a member of the Haiku Society of America. He began 
writing haiku and senryu in 2018, has been nominated for the 2021 and 2022 Touchstone Award for Individual Poems, and has been published in Acorn, 
Akitsu Quarterly, Asahi Haikuist Network, Blōō Outlier Journal, Bones, Cattails, Charlotte Digregorios's Writer's Blog Daily Haiku, Chrysanthemum, Cold Moon Journal, Dadakuku, Failed Haiku, Fireflies' Light, Five Fleas, Frogpond, Golden Triangle Haiku Contest 2022, Haiku Canada Review, The Haiku Poets of the Garden State New Jersey Botanical Garden Sign Project April 2022 and April 2023, Haiku Seed, Hedgerow, The Heron's Nest, Horror Senryu Journal, Kingfisher, MahMight Haiku Journal, The Mainichi Haiku in English, Modern Haiku, The Pan Haiku Review, Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku & Senryu, Presence, Prune Juice, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Seashores, Shamrock Haiku Journal, Stardust, Time Haiku, Tinywords, Tsuri-dōrō, Ubu, Under the Basho, United Haiku and Tanka Society, Whiptail, United Haiku and Tanka Society Songbirds Online Anthology 2022, Haiku 2022, Jar of Rain: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2020, Skipping Stones: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2022, Shaping Water: Erotic Haiku 
and Tanka (2022), Sucking Mangos Naked, Erotic Haiku and Related Forms 
(2022), and Bird Whistle: A Contemporary Anthology of Bird Haiku, Senryu, 
and Short Poems (2023).

al fresco dining
a fly's meandering flight
table to table

May 17th 2023 

storm winds

the old church full

of cooing pigeons 

November 16th 2023

an old disco ball
catches sunlight in the barn
Indian summer

November 12th 2024