Book of the Week: By the Ocean

Marco Fraticelli has been writing haikai for 4 decades, and particularly humorous haiku. This short collection (King’s Road Press, 2009) shows him in good form on a theme that engages us all: the ocean, and what it does to us.

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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.

beach house
the hourglass
filled with sand

first day
   of vacation
      building sandcastles


by the ocean
reading
perfumed magazines

barbecue
the pork chops
shaped like Africa


between each wave
my children
disappear

at the beach
back to school
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