Book of the Week: late geese up a dry fork

Burnell Lippy has that rarest of things in haiku — an unmistakeable voice. His poems have a verbal aridity that belies their grounding in things as they are — that is, in the stuff of life, in all its succulence. late geese is his only full-length book (Red Moon Press, 2003) to date.

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

a spool of thread
left on its side
late summer rain

peeing
off the porch’s high end
the Milky Way

commuter train’s
abandoned crossword
the early darkness

broom straws
permanently bent
winter solitude

late-rising moon
each rock in the stream
has its own sound

summer dawn
coolness
of the egg’s taper