Book of the Week: at mull river

anne mckay’s lyrical approach to form in haiku has had no equal, and nearly all her poems are instantly identifiable. Those contained here (wind chimes press, 1995) are characteristic, in her usual colorful vein.

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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.

we knew the river then . . .
and green reeds
                         piping

from trestles
           the summerboys
                            daring and diving


waiting still
                  darkeyed women
                  walk the widow walk

to find again the footpath   the single leaf


that message in green glass
returning
               on winter waters . . .

tentatively
                on the ice edge
                tracing her figure eights