Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: Catching the Light

elsberg_catchingthelightJohn Elsberg and Eric Greinke were just ahead of the rediscovery of sequence in haiku by publishing this set of 12 (Cervená Barva Press, 2009), done without attribution. We offer one complete, “In the Wake.”

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


     driftwood
cradled again the dunes
          color of bone


the Snake Brothers play
Temptation on the boardwalk
     slender legs


     brushing sand
from my notebook
     no words on the page


turquoise running
just off the beach
twilight’s soft compassion


she sketches at dusk from the dunes     fading lines


late summer
dragonflies along the edge
of a wobbly sea


sunset over the back bay     a tree turns orange


the quickness
of the shell I reach for
outgoing tide


going home     not quite ocean     not quite bay


everything that we
     leave behind is in the wake
          the gulls keep pace

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