Chuck Brickley

Chuck Brickley’s collection of haiku, Earthshine (now in its fourth printing), won a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award (2017), and honorable mentions in the inaugural Marianne Bluger Book Award (2020) and the Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards (2017). One of his haibun was nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2018), another for a Sonders Best Small Fiction Award (2019). Chuck is currently the second vice president of the Haiku Society of America, and a judge for both the Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poems and, for 2021, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational. He served as associate editor of Modern Haiku under the editorship of Robert Spiess from 1980 to 1985. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, Chuck has lived half his life in California, the other half in British Columbia. He currently resides near his birth city, San Francisco. Visit Chuck’s website.

                 distant sail

                 a breeze lifts

                 the hairs on my neck

                                                                                 sheet lightning

                                                                                 a face near the top

                                                                                 of the Ferris wheel

                 forsythia

                the widow’s blinds

                part slightly

                                                                                manhole steam

                                                                                two men with briefcases

                                                                                from the other world

                age spots

                   a fistful of sand

                sifting back to sand