Book of the Week: Empty Account

Ralf Bröker takes us on an unexpected journey in this self-produced digital book of haibun (2011, translated 2013) — to a place of recovery following a personal burn-out.

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 president Jim Kacian, and are used with permission.

snowed in
walking the footsteps
of the others

medical center
a young man seats himself
in the sunlight

with all these lovely people
celebrating Christmas
without you

massage
stroking out
the dispute

winter wind
under this tree
I am a leaf, too

three systems
rehearse an emergency
the rolling of my train