Book of the Week: Catching the Light
John 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.”
You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.
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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 bonethe Snake Brothers play Temptation on the boardwalk slender legsbrushing sand from my notebook no words on the pageturquoise running just off the beach twilight’s soft compassionshe sketches at dusk from the dunes fading lineslate summer dragonflies along the edge of a wobbly seasunset over the back bay a tree turns orangethe quickness of the shell I reach for outgoing tidegoing home not quite ocean not quite bayeverything that we leave behind is in the wake the gulls keep pace