Seabeck Haiku Getaway 2020 Kukai Winners
Congratulations to the following winners of the 2020 Seabeck Haiku Getaway kukai (our friendly annual anonymous haiku contest). We received 235 poems (one or two poems per poet), and votes from 124 Seabeck participants. The following poets placed in the top ten places, based on total vote count, voted on anonymously, and these poems were published in our 2020 Seabeck anthology. Results compiled by Michael Dylan Welch, kukai coordinator.
First Place
dahlia blossom—
the many layers
of her touch
Nicholas Klacsanzky
Second Place
dense fog
the murmuring
of our condolences
Lorraine A. Padden
Third Place
vinegar & newspaper
wiping the windows
with stories
Dorothy Mahoney
Fourth Place
rainforest
we travel towards the mountains
by flute
Marion Clarke
Fifth Place
dusting for fingerprints the whorl of galaxies
Sarah Metzler
Sixth Place (tie)
under the pile
of newly raked leaves—
giggles
Kim Weers
sumi brush
with one sweep
a leaf
Sarah Metzler
old bus ticket
between the pages
marking her stop
susan spooner
Seventh Place
letter to old friend
returned to sender
late autumn chill
Maureen Lanagan Haggerty
Eighth Place
getting old
the roots move around
the stones
Mike Rehling
Ninth Place (tie)
fall colors
my choices of words
keep changing
Christine L. Villa
through a train window
the hunter’s moon
stalking me
Pippa Phillips
Tenth Place (tie)
post mastectomy
through her garden window
two ripe tomatoes
Robin Palley
Halloween moon
the disembodied voices
of passing geese
Jacquie Pearce
blue moon . . .
the fading notes
of a flute
Susan Constable