Book of the Week: down the mermaid’s back

Yvonne Cabalona brings a familial sensibility to this 2010 collection (café nietzsche press), grounded in the quotidian and the relational, gardening and childhood and the space between.

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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, following a concept first explored by Tom Clausen, and are used with permission.

slice of moon
the shape of "ahhh"
in cold air

rainy day
my mother singing
an old love song

rain threatening
she applies a fresh red
of pout

cold moon
I do the dishes
by hand

morning warmth
a boy stretching his step
to match dad’s

water fountain—
   a trail
      of algae
             down
                 the
                    mermaid’s
                                   back