Poet Profile

Marshall Bood

Marshall Bood's haiku, senryu and tanka have appeared in many journals since 2010. He has also published longer poems and flash fiction.

Awards and Other Honors: Work selected for Neon Graffiti: Tanka Poetry of Urban Life (Keibooks, 2016); Every Chicken, Cow, Fish and Frog: Animal Rights Haiku (Middle Island Press, 2016); Fear of Dancing: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2013 Red Moon Press, 2014); and The Body Electric Anthology (Ars Omnia Press, 2013).

crow caws
in all directions ...
the endless traffic

summer afternoon --
the saxophone busker
takes a drag

streets sparkle ..
the white dog follows
the path in the snow

valley summer --
shale breaks
in our hands

summer rain --
a dog and cat
share the doghouse

winter persists --
she shakes
her nail polish

Credits: "crow caws" - The Heron's Nest XII:4 (2010); "streets sparkle" - bottle rockets #27 (2012); "summer rain" - The Heron's Nest XVI.3 (2014); "summer afternoon" - The Heron's Nest XIV:2 (2012); "valley summer" - bottle rockets #28 (2012); "winter persists" - Acorn 31(2013).