Book of the Week: Far As The Eye Can See

Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg was perhaps the most talented of the many Catholic nuns who have advocated haiku, especially in the 1970s and ’80s. Eulberg was particularly interested in people, as is evidenced by this attractive chapbook from wind chimes press (1983).

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, following a concept first explored by Tom Clausen, and are used with permission.

the child swings
his pail of minnows
around a new world

the fish
in the hands
of the priest

Mozart’s sonata:
the retarded child
rocking gently

fields of corn stretching
as far as the eye can see
withing     a lost child

rolling pin in hand
the baker
sings his pies

in my hands now
my father’s letter opener
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