Poet Profile

Tim Cremin

Tim Cremin is a high school mathematics teacher in Massachusetts (USA). Tim’s poetry has been published in many fine journals, including Acorn, bottle rockets, contemporary haibun online, Failed Haiku, Frogpond, Kingfisher, Mayfly, Modern Haiku, Poetry Pea Journal, Rattle, Ribbons, The Heron’s Nest, and tinywords.

Books Published: The Way You Run in Dreams, Finishing Line Press, 2017, USA; Watching a Candle by Candlelight, Red Moon Press, 2026, USA.

silent night
watching a candle
by candlelight

going deeper
for the silent treatment
autumn woods

don't worry
the other owls
know what it means

saucer of milk
the stray picks up
a name

yellow accordion
the dream making sense
while I’m in it

a deer trail
crossing ours
snow moon

Credits:

“silent night” – Frogpond vol. 43.3, Autumn 2020; “going deeper” – Modern Haiku vol. 52.1: Winter-Spring 2021; “don't worry” – The Heron’s Nest Vol. XXIII, No. 3: Sept. 2021; “saucer of milk” – Acorn #45: Fall 2020; “yellow accordion” – Sonic Boom Issue 18, August 2020; “a deer trail” – Modern Haiku vol. 52.2: Summer 2021.