Jeff Ingram teaches creative writing at two local colleges and works on his organic garden. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, Kim.
Most recently, Jeff has been published in Akitsu Quarterly’s Spring 2022 and Modern Haiku’s Autumn 2022 editions. He also has had a piece selected for publication in bird whistle: A Contemporary Anthology of bird Haiku (title subject to change) through bottle rockets press in 2023. He has two pieces forthcoming in The Mamba: Africa Haiku Network, as well as pieces published in recent issues of Modern Haiku, Akitsu Quarterly, Trash Panda, and Wales Haiku Journal.
greenhouse apparitions is Jeff Ingram's fifth microchap collection.
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► Jeff's microchaps & selected poem(s) are available below. Click Title to download the one-page PDF 'micro'.
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| greenhouse apparitions | |||
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Cover: Pottery by Kim Ingram · |
a rhizome
scion fits
good idea a broken branch |
backyard dweller
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pocked with ponds
flowers die
• Jeff Ingram © 2024
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| seed library | |||
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Cover: sod image from internet • |
greenhouse dream wake up soaked
newly seeded bed
slug tentacle
moonlit
collared collard |
primeval atom
cowslip
stretch of trees
occasional star
solstice celebration digging up parsnips |
burlap sack potatoes don a onesie pull tight gourds
happily donate seed library • Jeff Ingram © 2022 |
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Cover: Moon Conjure by Lauri Burke |
still in our lean-to first light caulks the seams
on the scale this morning just me --- tomato bends her ear folk wisdom
ready for a nice soak scarified seed
lips still touch upside down bats in love |
puff the smoker emotes rooftop beehive’s delight
black bear
frozen pond skating Saturn’s rings --- moonrise
phases change again today moon gardening
shoulders speak for themselves last of the radishes |
the uphill climb to find it downtime
lavender patch --- sweet earth her story takes ceramic form greenhouse lullaby I cover seedlings for the night • Jeff Ingram © 2020
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| enjoying the soil | |||
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Cover collage by Jan Keough • |
daybreak’s crawling glaze time changes color
the sky opens
she snips a fern fiddlehead curled just so --- parched garden
each step forward enjoying the soil
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dancing bee
a catbird gives its best Joni Mitchell right back --- wings folded
last night's rain
flooded field two mallards make do |
tap at the greenhouse door a cat wants in first frost --- chickadees speak faint puffs of steam
inside a greenhouse
• Jeff Ingram © 2018 |
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 Cover art: scene changes
by Jan Keough
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open tent flap - - -
fish he chooses to speak then listen to
crayfish backpedal divine the current’s music
before a pond
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geese claim the lot’s last open parking spot
first road trip - - - not thinking
oak’s pulse
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harmless poses paper skeletons dangle from branches
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still dark
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Jeff Ingram © 2016
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