Book of the Week: Chalk Drawings

Carolyne Rohrig and Marco Fraticelli utilized the septenga (a 7-link collaboration invented by Alexis Rotella and Ai Li) to create this chapbook to celebrate Haiku Canada Weekend 2007 (King’s Road Press). Carolyne’s verses are the 2-liners in this complete example, “Wishing.”

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

my daughter and I
wishing
on the same star

her calloused knees
from years of praying

seniors’ residence
a discarded computer
in the garbage

uprooted roses
that didn’t climb the fence

lipstick taste
dressing up
for the wake

fourth cup of coffee
another round of condolences

all night long
the wind chimes
without her