Gregory Longenecker
Pasadena, CA USA
A poet, Gregory’s work has appeared in such publications as Acorn, bottle rockets, Cattails, Ershik, Frogpond, Mariposa & Shamrock and featured in A New Resonance, #9 by Red Moon Press. Two editions of the Red Moon Anthologies of English-language haiku have carried his work (2013 & 2014) and Modern Haiku Press, Haiku 2014 and Haiku 2016, as well. Gregory has been editor of the Southern California Haiku Study Group’s anthology, is on the editorial staff of the Living Haiku Anthology, & is currently Contest Chair for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society’s Annual Tokutomi Haiku Contest.
somewhere deep inside Pluto
Bones, #7, 2015
she keeps it
all wrapped inside
Hello Kitty lunchbox
Ershik, January, 2016
bathing in moonlight Galileo’s eye
Bones #5, 2014
without her moondancing
Bones 6, 2015
Parkinson’s the late stages of desire
cattails, #2, 2014
samsara
wandering from one bar
to the next
Prune Juice, #11, 2013
limbo
another dream
of lost friends
Failed Haiku, #3, March, 2016
all the things
I’ve done…
moving van
Ershik, April 2014
blue hour
a door opens
to my past
The Heron’s Nest, Vol. XVII, #1, 2015
narrow alley
I begin to question
my assumptions
Cattails, #1, 2015
his eyes half-closed
I speak in whispers-
stone Buddha
Prune Juice, March, 2016
the dead of night
my father wanders
through my dreams
Frogpond, 37.2, 2014
together again rain puddle
Frogpond 38:2, 2015
moving day
we take apart the bed
our parents’ dreamed on
San Diego Poetry Annual 2015-16
old gods squeezed into the hearse
Under the Basho, 2015
age
the altered landscape
of my dreams
tiny words, 16.1, 2016