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  4. Wechselberger, Joseph P.
  • USA
  • 1946

Joseph P. Wechselberger

Born 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Living in Browns Mills, New Jersey USA

Joseph has been retired since March 2007. He began writing haiku in 2018 and is member of the Haiku Society of America. His work has been Touchstone nominated in 2021 and 2022 and has appeared in 33 haiku journals, Haiku 2022, and jar of rain: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2020.


Mother's wake
her special occasion dress
finally worn

Prune Juice 29, November 2019

bickering
a couple picks flowers
from their salads

Prune Juice 30, March 2020

emergency room
a paperback
with a broken spine

Prune Juice 30, March 2020

after Dad's death
his chair holds
his shape

failed haiku  49, January 2020

under stars our sleeping bags touching

Frogpond 44.2, Winter 2021

approaching storm sometimes it's kinder to lie

failed haiku  61, January 2021

without lights the Milky Way

failed haiku  61, January 2021

First Holy Communion
gum
on the sole of a shoe

failed haiku  61, January 2021

leaving the confessional
a boy
picking his nose

failed haiku  64, April 2021

sunset
the movement of newborn pups
in the sack

failed haiku  68, August 2021

the sweet sound of Coltrane’s sax
sharpening
a whittling knife

Modern Haiku  52.3, Autumn 2021

yard sale—
buckle rash
on an old fender

Visiting the Wind: Haiku Society of America Members' Anthology 2021, Haiku Society of America

among his things
routes marked
on an old road map

Kingfisher 4, November 2021

the steady click of Newton's cradle pop quiz

failed haiku 70, October 2021

curling into the bowl the shadow then the peel

Whiptail Journal 1, November 2021

family funeral
we share our versions
of the same story

failed haiku  71, November 2021

the sad look
in his old dog's eyes
panhandler

failed haiku 71, November 2021

a flash of sun
off her guitar
street busker

failed haiku 71, November 2021

still warm in the cans
the village milk wagon
making its rounds

MahMight Haiku Journal, November 27, 2021

a poem copied
in Dad's tight cursive ...
we never discussed the war

Hedgerow: a journal of small poems 137, January 2022

chalk drawings
the mailman jumps over
her rainbow

Cold Moon Journal, June 8, 2022

family tree—
the stories I heard
around kitchen tables

Prune Juice 37, July 2022
Prune Juice 37

what he wants
to be when grown
the length of my shadow

Prune Juice 37, July 2022

childless
and the only child of an only child ...
the brief lives of mayflies

Cold Moon Journal, September 13, 2022

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