Book of the Week: Between the Chimes

Today’s Book of the Week is Between the Chimes, by Charles Trumbull, published by King’s Road Press in 2011. Though Charlie has made a reputation in haiku circles as an important haiku bibliographer, essayist, and historian, as an editor of Modern Haiku, and as Honorary Curator of the American Haiku Archives, he is also the author of brilliantly understated haiku that often take us deep into unfamiliar emotional territory.

my ancestor’s grave

I linger here awhile

after the rain starts

welcoming me home

at the commuter station

someone else’s basset

alone

with my Cheerios

and another missing child