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