O:JA&L Poetry: All forms & styles
Haiku
James Roderick Burns
Night lightning
About the writer:
James Roderick Burns’ fifth collection of short-form poetry, Crows at Dusk, was published by Red Moon Press in 2023. He is Reader in Poetry for Ploughshares and Co/Tanka editor of Presence, the UK’s leading haiku journal. He can be found on Twitter @JamesRoderickB.
Image: She wanted storms (AI-assisted digital image) by O:JA&L staff creative. 2026. Public domain via Midjourney AI.
Other work by James Roderick Burns available at O:JA&L:
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||James Roderick Burns|”Crow”
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||James Roderick Burns|”Skein of geese”
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||James Roderick Burns|”Seasons Change”
Featured Series: Prose Poetry|James Roderick Burns|”Attenborough Goes East”
Poetry: All forms & styles|James Roderick Burns|”Crow departs” (Haiku)
Poetry: All forms & styles|James Roderick Burns| “Horned shadows” (Haiku)
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