Book of the Week: Chincoteague
Our Book of the Week is Chincoteague, a collection of early haiku by Jim Kacian about a small barrier island off the Atlantic coast of Virginia. As an unpublished chapbook, it won the Cicada Chapbook Award for 1996. This volume contains all the poems of the winning entry, plus a series of fine watercolors by the noted English artist Janet Marsh.
small fortune
my pockets full
of sand dollars
some of the sun
glinting off the sea
is dolphins
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 THF Digital Librarian Garry Eaton, and are used with permission.
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some of the sun
glinting off the sea
is dolphins
lovely ku. just downloaded the book. thanks for this great opportunity to read this collection of haiku by Jim Kacian.
Thank you for the opportunity to read this beautiful book! I enjoyed all of it but my favorite was
small fortune
my pockets full
of sand dollars
Lovely book – it reminded me of a book I read as a child – Misty of Chincoteague – about the ponies on the island. I’ve been intrigued ever since!
Jim, I read this lovely book on my deck this morning in early light, transported by the beauty of your haiku & JM’s water colors. Thank you for taking me to Chincoteague!
The dolphins haiku reminded me of Hackett:
half of the minnows
within this sunlit shallow
are not really there