Marietta Jane McGregor
Born in Australia
Residing in Canberra, Australia
Marietta Jane McGregor is a botanist and journalist whose careers include palynology researcher, garden designer, university tutor, editor, science grant writer and astronomical observatory public education manager. Her haiku are published internationally in major journals, have featured on Japanese television, and have won awards in Japan, the UK and America.
tai chi class―
two lovers turning it
horizontal
Asahi Haikuist Network, May, 2015
picnic races
around the track a dust cloud
full of horses
Prospect Issue 5, 2015
stress factor—
in a fractal landscape
a couple shatters
lighthouse
the black around us
sliced
The Mainichi Haiku in English, July 2015; Best of The Mainichi 2015, page 35
a flash of white wings
in the corner of my eye
gone in one blink
The Mainichi Haiku in English, July 2015; Best of The Mainichi 2015, page 35
one more book
for the jumble sale—
joy of sex
Wild Plum, Fall and Winter Issue 1:2, 2015
Wild Plum 2015 Anthology, Behind the Tree Line
Sunday dinner—
the flypaper too full
for one more fly
Windfall: Australian Haiku, issue 4, 2015
fair fight
laughing clowns
turn to check
bottle rockets: a collection of short verse, issue 34
open-air cinema
marilyn's left eyebrow
a gum moth
A Hundred Gourds, issue 5:1, page 10, December 2015
orthodontist clinic
waiting room smiles get
a second look
Failed Haiku – A Journal of English Language Senryu, Issue 1:2, Feb 2016
dress-up party...
the zombies
are the liveliest
Failed Haiku – A Journal of English Language Senryu, Issue 1:2, Feb 2016
quickie divorce
a walnut out of its shell
in perfect halves
Failed Haiku – A Journal of English Language Senryu, Issue 1:2, Feb 2016
seniors club
a billboard reads
'live dancing'
Failed Haiku – A Journal of English Language Senryu, Issue 1:3, March 2016
roadside rust bucket―
every real apology
we could have made
the russet red
of a pegged-out fox skin
his lasting regrets
otter pool
a whiskery man
grinning
Presence, Issue 55
in and out
of the hospital ward
orderly progression
Failed Haiku: a Journal of English Language Senryu, Issue 1:5, May 2016
petting zoo...
newlyweds stroke
each other
Failed Haiku: a Journal of English Language Senryu, Issue 1:5, May 2016
seventy-plus…
switching to
Jupiter years
Failed Haiku: a Journal of English Language Senryu, June 2016
diner mirror myselves ordering second coffees
Under the Basho, One Line Haiku, 2015
hominid fossil display her tongue explores a touchy tooth
Modern Haiku Issue 46:3, 2015
promising to write— a bigger pile of peanut shells
Sonic Boom, Issue 3, August 2015
Rubik's Cube his head space exactly where he wants it
bottle rockets: a collection of short verse, Issue 34, 2015
35mm slide night that girl with my husband
moongarlic Issue 5, November 2015
old vagrant his ring of sparrows
tinywords Issue 16.1, March 2016
fish ladder that jump the heart makes
Failed Haiku: a Journal of English Language Senryu, Issue 1:5, May 2016