Book of the Week: Dark Leaves

Carol Dagenhart published this paean to her father (White Dwarf Press, 1986) when she was one of the best-known and most widely published poets writing haiku in English. We miss her spare, incisive, and telling manner.

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.

   dark lines
the long road leading
   to the farm

   old barn
how the light go in it
   your secret place

she kissed all his war letters —
tracing the lipstick marks

he brought us back a teapot —
then everything was different

   hospital room
tracing the veins
   in his hands

   velvet —
on the other side
   the dark leaves