Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: A Circle of Light

thurston_acircleoflightcoverDoris H. Thurston has hosted groups and mentored poets in Washington for decades. This special tribute volume (Kanshiketsu Press, 2010) was assembled by friends and students to honor her contributions, and so gives us all a chance to have a taste of her special gift.

You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.

Do you have a chapbook published 2010 or earlier you would like featured as a Book of the Week? Contact us for details.

Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, and are used with permission.


spring ritual
pulling out roots to make room
                                   for roots


(the ants have been busy,   the ants are busy,   the ants will continue to be busy.)


snake skin
caught on a blade of rock
windless day


wind in the trees
   my dreams also fly
   over the hill


coastal fog
one red madrona branch
warms the morning


war again . . .
   the starlings
      fly south

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  2. So beautiful!
    Thank you very much.

    night loses its darkness
    to one robin’s song

    Doris H. Thurston

    Nature, awakens so delicately!
    a breeze,
    a bird’s song,
    soft touch of light,
    a shining dewdrop,

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