Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: Light on the Mountain

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Laurie Stoelting’s beautiful paean to Mt. Tamalpais (tribe press, 2008) has drawn the attention of not only haiku poets, but naturalists, scientists, hikers, other poets, and just about everyone who has had a look at this book. You’ll see why here.

You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.

All haiku in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Tom Clausen, and are used with permission.




to a chorus of crickets
the earth
gives up its light


moonrise . . .
night swells the sound
of the creek



out of the hermit thrush
out of the valley
one song


we hike the canyon
all your words
filling the space


the hummingbird's red throat
he stops
my breath


purr of the reel
a cormorant's wingbeat
sweeps the lake


mountain dust
covers my boots
the descending night


rhythm of the stream—
retracing my path
in darkness


creek roaring
the single note
of a varied thrush


ocean wind
wave lapping wave
in the live grass


early lupine
all the heat
in the parked car


whitewater
it took the moonlight
to show me

This Post Has 4 Comments

  1. My favorite Laurie Stoelting haiku in the selections made by Clausen : ” rhythm of the stream—” .

  3. As Alan Summers said, a lovely book. Thank you to Laurie W. Stoelting for her poetry, and the cover photo by Eric Stoelting is also beautiful.

    And as always thanks to Tom, Jim, and all who bring these books to us each week. It seems THF Digital Library is really growing!

  4. A lovely book as well as a well-written collection of poetry capturing a whole mountain.

    Incredible work.

    drought–
    the sound of surf
    up windless hills

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