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Book of the Week: Anti-War Haiku

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Mike Chasty’s thematic chapbook (self-published, 2006) embraces a topic that concerns us all, and that hasn’t become less pressing since he essayed it. It would be interesting to test his hypothesis (back cover) but we’ve never known a moment that might act as a control.

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.





March—the war is on
As though from sitcom to sitcom
Pilot banks and drops a bomb


A war jet streaks by
Vultures for the bodies
with their dreams pure



Self-satisfied
Commanders daintily name
The operation


In the cuirass of
A shining blue bottle—
Dead soldier’s grin



As peacekeeping
Recedes
How the ground reddens!


What poppies grow
In a cratered land
Where cemeteries shine

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