Poet Profile

David Grayson

David Grayson’s haiku have appeared widely. David is featured in A New Resonance 6: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku. He was a featured poet in My Neighbor, the 2009 installment of the annual Two Autumns reading and chapbook series. He has served as President and Vice President of the Haiku Poets of Northern California. David is currently writing a monthly feature for The Haiku Foundation. Entitled “Religio,” the forum is devoted to the intersection of haiku and religious tradition: https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/forum_sm/religio/.

the hawk also waiting
for shadows —
Groundhog Day

first day of school
his backpack
filled with summer

spring cleaning—
moving the dust
from one season to another

Halloween party—
after a few drinks
the masks come off

street corner memorial—
my four-year-old
asks for the balloon

the coldness
of my pocket change—
cardboard shelter

Credits: "the hawk also waiting" - Shiki Monthly Kukai (February 2010); evolution: the Red Moon Anthology of English-language Haiku 2010 (Red Moon Press, 2011); "spring cleaning" - Mariposa 16 (2007); Chime Award Winner (2007); "street corner" - 1st Place, 2008 Gerald Brady Senryu Contest; Frogpond 32:1 (2009); My Neighbor (Two Autumns Press, 2009); "first day" - Shiki Monthly Kukai (September 2009); The Haiku Calendar 2010 (Snapshot Press); "Halloween party" - Frogpond 28:3 (2005); inside the mirror: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2005 (Red Moon Press, 2006); A New Resonance 6: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2009); "the coldness" - 3rd Place, 2008 Anita Sadler Weiss Awards; A New Resonance 6: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2009).