Bob Redmond

Burien, Washington

Bob Redmond began his study of haiku in 2005 as writer-in-residence for Seattle’s Richard Hugo House. In 2020, his manuscript Under the Chestnut Tree won an eChapbook award from Snapshot Press. A professional beekeeper since 2009, Bob has also instigated several pollinator restoration projects in the Pacific Northwest.

jumping puddles

all the way to the matinee

his sixth spring

the shadow of the jay

deeper and deeper

into the woods

lunar eclipse

little by little

mother forgets

winter dawn

the new neighbor’s shovel

breaking the ice

over the detention center a flight of swallows