Poet Profile

Paul Pfleuger, Jr.

Currently Assistant Editor at Roadrunner, Haiku Foundation Feature Editor (with Jack Galmitz) on “Per Diem” and with the translation staff at the World Haiku Association.

Awards and Other Honors: The Heron's Nest Award 6:7 (2004); Prize Winner, 7th Haiku International Association Award (Japan, 2005); Second Prize, The Kusamakura International Haiku Competition (Japan, 2005); Judge's Award, 18th ITO EN Oi Ocha New Haiku Contest (Japan, 2007); Second Place [International Section], 10th Mainichi Haiku Contest (Japan, 2007); Scorpion Award, Roadrunner VIII:2 (2008).

Neon light
like a carpet
on Ghost Month waters

Outside the binary lecture    green language

Dropping everything
to run with the dogs
to be human again

A darkness so deep
I am surrounded
by gold beetles

At the door
of the government center
I tuck in my thoughts

My words
in her ears
like ice fishing

Credits: "Neon light"- Roadrunner VII: 2 (2007); "Dropping everything"- Ginyu 38 (2008); "At the door" - World Haiku 2009, Shichigatsudo, Tokyo (2009); "Outside"- Frogpond 33:3 (2010); "A darkness so deep" - Roadrunner VIII: 1 (2008); "My words" - Haiku Harvest 6:1 (2006).