Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: at herring cove

baatz_atherringcovecoverRonald Baatz flaunts haiku form in his search of a more natural diction throughout this earliest volume (Lockout Press, 2002). His reputation as a fine bird poet began here and is in full evidence.

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


an umbrella left here on friday
            usually is gone
               by monday


forgotten in the cellar
         a bicycle
  with both tires flat


               a spark plug
held tight in my father’s old fist
    as he approaches the shed


            please! let’s not argue
while such a beautiful twilight huddles
          in the chest of the quail


           as fireflies swarm
she experiences the mysterious
           through a screen


         on its back
 the beetle plugs into
a new frenzied energy

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