Carrie Ann Thunell
Born 1958 in USA.
Carrie Ann (CAT) Thunell has had poetry and/or art published in over 75 print magazines.
She was editor of the Nisqually Delta Review, which ran for 3 years. Her haiga has been on Simply Haiku, and Haigaonline. Ms Thunell has been published in several of Robert Epstein’s haiku anthologies.
after the rain
blooms everywhere–
croak after croak
Simply Haiku, winter 2006
flying
over the handlebars
the moon and I
Paper Wasp, spring 2005
The Signature Haiku Anthology edited by Robert Epstein, Middle Island Press, 2020
between
raindrops—
the percolator
Simply Haiku, Summer 4:2, 2006
tulip fields in bloom—
she walks in the sun
heavy with child
Mayfly, summer 2004
beaks
peel back the night
with song
Haiku Harvest, spring/summer 2006
chair propped by window
she nods in the sun
rosary in hand
Kokako, Sept 2004
birds
fold up their colors--
last berries
Frogpond, Spring 2004
a child collects
spiral sea shells—
wave lapped toes
Paper Wasp, summer 2005
the marriage bed—
mother curled round
dad’s photograph
They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers, and Others in Haiku edited by Robert Epstein, Middle Island Press 2017
a boy
toddler-wobbly
holding his bug box
Paper Wasp, Jan 2006
moon dog night—
a guy I used to drink with
asks for spare change
Frogpond, fall 2006
blue-gray currents—
the kayak
spilling stars
Paper Wasp, fall 2004
Blue-gray Currents: A Haijin Hikes in and Around the Olympic Penninsula by Carrie Ann Thunell Shadow Poetry C 2005
bongo drums
he practices his rhythm—
rain battered roses
Presence, # 24 Sept 2004
a cat
uncurls from the leaf pile-
potato bugs
White Lotus, fall/winter2006
owl moon . . .
in the deep forest,
my true self
Simply Haiku, Summer 4:2 2006
Earth—Grandmother of the Buddhas edited by Carrie Ann Thunell Mad Maverick Press, 2006
catching rain
on my tongue—
scent of plum blossoms
Heron’s Nest, March 2007
chaining the bike
to a bare tree
voices drift by
Modern Haiku, # 37-1, 2006
crescent
winter
moon
water
laced
silver
Haiku Canada, Feb 2006
cross-stitched
on my Zazen pillow—
the serenity prayer
Frogpond, winter 2006
dragging her walker
through deep mud
the old woman sings
Kokako, Sept 2004
how the moon
wavers
in my tea cup
Lynx, June 2007
rain sliding
down leaves—
cat-stretched windowsill
Haiku Harvest, spring/summer 2006
moon viewing
on the nude beach—
the laughing gulls
Clouds Peak issue# 1 summer 2006
spin
ning top
falls on its nose spinning
the cat’s ear
tip
Haiku Canada member’s anthology, a chirping sparrow, May 2005
leafing through
a maple grove—
forgotten sutras
bottle rockets, vol9 # 1
married life—
the sound
of his burping
Kokako, Sept 2004
leaves on the ground—
the dog uncovers
what the cat left
Haiku Canada, June 2005
momma was a
summer landscape painter--
Montana still life
Simply Haiku, Summer 4:2, 2006