Book of the Week: How Fast the Ground Moves

D. Claire Gallagher won the Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Chapbook Contest for 2001-2 with this entry (Saki Press, 2001), and made a point of saying that her focus in it was to be found in the transitions between states — seasons, time, space — more than the divisions themselves.

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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, and are used with permission.

first light —
lying in bed until
the bureau takes shape

blowing out
one birthday candle
     the whole family

     after love
 this sweet burst
of cherry tomato

her small hand pauses
before choosing a crayon —
the autumn maple

Advent altar —
a candle wick straightens
within the flame

winter solstice —
drawing our chairs closer
to the shifting logs