Book of the Week: a net of sunlight

Kirsty Karkow writes evocatively of her adopted home in Maine, but so tellingly that people from anywhere might identify with them. This volume, self-published in 2002, can be appreciated anywhere there is field and stream, sea and sunlight.

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

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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, following a concept first explored by Tom Clausen, and are used with permission.

honeymoon
we wade into the current
of a great river


gnarled oak
my journey to the hills
starts in mist


empty shelf
dusty outlines of books
my parents read

gale force wind
the shriek of gulls
flying in place


winter stars—
a wild goose tucks its head
under a wing

anchored
a net of sunlight
in the shallows