Poet Profile

Rich Schilling

Rich Schilling lives inside his head and also Webster Groves, Missouri. He has a wife (the best) and three kids (also the best). He has been a proofreader/book compositor (college level textbooks/print ready PDFs) for about twenty years and counting. He has the following to blame for wanting to write: Shel Silverstein, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, Philip Larkin, Carole Maso, Guided By Voices, Captain Beefheart, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco, Raymond Carver, Jesse Ball, Italo Calvino, especially Peter Yovu, and too many haiku poets to list.

snowy barn
all the red
of huddled ladybugs

top stories
disappearing 
in city fog

insomnia 
staring down a crack
in the night

bleeding starlight brian eno

      cobblestones
  the uneven path
   of my thoughts

small town business
a meeting
of roadside crows 

Credits:

“snowy barn” - Haiku Dialogue 15, 2019; “top stories” - Mayfly Issue 66, 2019; “insomnia” - Prune Juice March, 2019; “bleeding starlight” - Bones journal for contemporary haiku XVI, 2019; “cobblestones” - Stardust Haiku Issue 19, July 2018; “small town business” - bottle rockets #40, 2019.