C.X.Turner (Luci)
@loverpoetic.bsky.social
poet and co-editor WHJ @waleshaiku.bsky.social
2025
New Resonance 14 from cxturner.etsy.com
2024
evergreen from cxturner.etsy.com or Alba Publishing
2023
Building Sandcastles from https://a.co/d/7psrCFA
anemones from Yavanika Press
she/her/they/them🏳️🌈
2025
New Resonance 14 from cxturner.etsy.com
2024
evergreen from cxturner.etsy.com or Alba Publishing
2023
Building Sandcastles from https://a.co/d/7psrCFA
anemones from Yavanika Press
she/her/they/them🏳️🌈
sleep wouldn’t come
the night
sat #grumpy in the corner
crickets sawed
through the heat
like rusted blades
moonlight pooling
in hollows
where dreams should be
#FromOneLine #vss365
the night
sat #grumpy in the corner
crickets sawed
through the heat
like rusted blades
moonlight pooling
in hollows
where dreams should be
#FromOneLine #vss365
August 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
sleep wouldn’t come
the night
sat #grumpy in the corner
crickets sawed
through the heat
like rusted blades
moonlight pooling
in hollows
where dreams should be
#FromOneLine #vss365
the night
sat #grumpy in the corner
crickets sawed
through the heat
like rusted blades
moonlight pooling
in hollows
where dreams should be
#FromOneLine #vss365
liminal noon
dress clings
behind knees
salt beads
at the throat
diesel and elderflower
thicken the air
fingers touch nettles
welcoming the sting
blackbird gurgles
deep in shade
i wait
#vss365 #liminal #summersolstice #poem
dress clings
behind knees
salt beads
at the throat
diesel and elderflower
thicken the air
fingers touch nettles
welcoming the sting
blackbird gurgles
deep in shade
i wait
#vss365 #liminal #summersolstice #poem
June 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
liminal noon
dress clings
behind knees
salt beads
at the throat
diesel and elderflower
thicken the air
fingers touch nettles
welcoming the sting
blackbird gurgles
deep in shade
i wait
#vss365 #liminal #summersolstice #poem
dress clings
behind knees
salt beads
at the throat
diesel and elderflower
thicken the air
fingers touch nettles
welcoming the sting
blackbird gurgles
deep in shade
i wait
#vss365 #liminal #summersolstice #poem
June 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
#poem
I made no claim—
still, a #realm gathered
where your name thinned air,
ivy curled towards absence.
I waited so long
Even the dusk gods
stood with me, quiet—
but nothing shifted.
Now the realm is mine.
It bears strange fruit,
speaks in altered winds
I no longer follow
the same path.
#vss365
I made no claim—
still, a #realm gathered
where your name thinned air,
ivy curled towards absence.
I waited so long
Even the dusk gods
stood with me, quiet—
but nothing shifted.
Now the realm is mine.
It bears strange fruit,
speaks in altered winds
I no longer follow
the same path.
#vss365
June 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#vss365
The string snapped
but still I stirred
dark honey into
cool ash
braided stinging nettle
through tangled hair
not to ward you off
only to keep the memory warm
a quiet part of me
still listens
in river grass
for the #susurrus
of thorn-bright bramble gods
calling me
to bloom
#FromOneLine
The string snapped
but still I stirred
dark honey into
cool ash
braided stinging nettle
through tangled hair
not to ward you off
only to keep the memory warm
a quiet part of me
still listens
in river grass
for the #susurrus
of thorn-bright bramble gods
calling me
to bloom
#FromOneLine
June 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
#vss365
The string snapped
but still I stirred
dark honey into
cool ash
braided stinging nettle
through tangled hair
not to ward you off
only to keep the memory warm
a quiet part of me
still listens
in river grass
for the #susurrus
of thorn-bright bramble gods
calling me
to bloom
#FromOneLine
The string snapped
but still I stirred
dark honey into
cool ash
braided stinging nettle
through tangled hair
not to ward you off
only to keep the memory warm
a quiet part of me
still listens
in river grass
for the #susurrus
of thorn-bright bramble gods
calling me
to bloom
#FromOneLine
June 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
#haiku #senryu #tanka #monoku #bookreviews
Still feeling very grateful for this kind note from Cynthia
cxturner.etsy.com
Still feeling very grateful for this kind note from Cynthia
cxturner.etsy.com
June 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#haiku #senryu #tanka #monoku #bookreviews
Still feeling very grateful for this kind note from Cynthia
cxturner.etsy.com
Still feeling very grateful for this kind note from Cynthia
cxturner.etsy.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#haikuSaturday
playing that song
the #speaker releases
what I hold in
#vss365 #senryu #dailyhaikuprompt #magenta
playing that song
the #speaker releases
what I hold in
#vss365 #senryu #dailyhaikuprompt #magenta
June 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
#haikuSaturday
playing that song
the #speaker releases
what I hold in
#vss365 #senryu #dailyhaikuprompt #magenta
playing that song
the #speaker releases
what I hold in
#vss365 #senryu #dailyhaikuprompt #magenta
vision
the gate swings
in a wind I can't feel . . .
through thistle heads
a shimmer—
not rain
but a fox
woven from the way we left
#vss365 #vision #poem #digitalart
the gate swings
in a wind I can't feel . . .
through thistle heads
a shimmer—
not rain
but a fox
woven from the way we left
#vss365 #vision #poem #digitalart
May 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
vision
the gate swings
in a wind I can't feel . . .
through thistle heads
a shimmer—
not rain
but a fox
woven from the way we left
#vss365 #vision #poem #digitalart
the gate swings
in a wind I can't feel . . .
through thistle heads
a shimmer—
not rain
but a fox
woven from the way we left
#vss365 #vision #poem #digitalart
I have a small number of copies here in the UK, which I’m happy to post, either on their own or together with a signed copy of my debut solo collection, evergreen – a collection of haiku, senryu and tanka.
www.etsy.com/shop/cxturner
www.etsy.com/shop/cxturner
May 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I have a small number of copies here in the UK, which I’m happy to post, either on their own or together with a signed copy of my debut solo collection, evergreen – a collection of haiku, senryu and tanka.
www.etsy.com/shop/cxturner
www.etsy.com/shop/cxturner
It’s with quiet joy that I share the news that my #haiku appear in A New Resonance 14: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, newly published by Red Moon Press.
To be included in this long-running and widely respected series, edited by Jim Kacian and Julie Schwerin, is an honour I hold close.
To be included in this long-running and widely respected series, edited by Jim Kacian and Julie Schwerin, is an honour I hold close.
May 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
It’s with quiet joy that I share the news that my #haiku appear in A New Resonance 14: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, newly published by Red Moon Press.
To be included in this long-running and widely respected series, edited by Jim Kacian and Julie Schwerin, is an honour I hold close.
To be included in this long-running and widely respected series, edited by Jim Kacian and Julie Schwerin, is an honour I hold close.
February 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
December 20, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Can't wait to see you here🖤
December 19, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Can't wait to see you here🖤
Delighted to share this wonderful news from our fantastic publisher, Literary Revelations, which includes mention of our book of short poems, Building Sandcastles 💙 @jamesbethwelsh35.bsky.social @g-marie-milton.bsky.social #haiku #senryu
December 19, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Delighted to share this wonderful news from our fantastic publisher, Literary Revelations, which includes mention of our book of short poems, Building Sandcastles 💙 @jamesbethwelsh35.bsky.social @g-marie-milton.bsky.social #haiku #senryu
They ask me
to leave a light on—
its glow pooling
across the empty floor
a #latent warmth clings
to the walls
fingers of shadow
trace what once was
their whispers,
minted in shadow,
brushing silence—
too soft to answer.
#vss365 #FromOneLine
to leave a light on—
its glow pooling
across the empty floor
a #latent warmth clings
to the walls
fingers of shadow
trace what once was
their whispers,
minted in shadow,
brushing silence—
too soft to answer.
#vss365 #FromOneLine
December 10, 2024 at 10:30 PM
They ask me
to leave a light on—
its glow pooling
across the empty floor
a #latent warmth clings
to the walls
fingers of shadow
trace what once was
their whispers,
minted in shadow,
brushing silence—
too soft to answer.
#vss365 #FromOneLine
to leave a light on—
its glow pooling
across the empty floor
a #latent warmth clings
to the walls
fingers of shadow
trace what once was
their whispers,
minted in shadow,
brushing silence—
too soft to answer.
#vss365 #FromOneLine
November 27, 2024 at 7:09 PM
