Poet Profile

Marcyn Del Clements

Marcyn enjoys the outdoors, birding, looking at butterflies and dragonflies. She has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Appalachia, Eureka Literary Magazine, Flyway, frogpond, Hollins Critic, Literary Review, Lyric, Sijo West, Snowy Egret, Wind and others, (including about 27 haiku and related genre publications).  She was very excited to be included in the anthology, Ravishing Disunities, Real Ghazals [in English], edited by the late Agha Shahid Ali.

Awards and Other Honors: Winner for Autumn, Volume 17 print edition, The Heron's Nest Illustration Contest (2015); First Place Readers' Choice Favorite of Issue, Haiku Headlines #203 (2015); Winner, "Pen This Painting," [sumi-e by Elizabeth McFarland], cattails (January 2015).

morning mist thinning
through the eucalypt forest
–kookaburra sleeps

through winter trees
from a half-frozen tarn
cry of the loon

pink pickled garlic
sweet soy beans Japanese vendor
wears a cowboy hat

open!  She commands
to the automatic door
--giggles from toddlers

she whispers
sweet nothings into
his hearing aid

ceiling fan revolves
in my glass ice cubes melting
she is gone

Credits: "morning mist thinning" - The Aurorean (2007); "pink pickled garlic" - black bough #4; "she whispers" - Haiku Headlines #203 (February 2005) [First Place Readers' Choice Favorite of Issue]; "through winter trees" – Winner, "Pen This Painting," [sumi-e by Elizabeth McFarland], cattails (January 2015);"open! She commands" - above the tree line, Southern California Haiku Study Group Anthology (2008); "ceiling fan revolves" - Lilliput Review #59 (1994).