Book of the Week: Magnetic North

Chris Pusateri grew up in Jamaica but lives in Mexico City, where he teaches English for business environments. His Magnetic North (Saki Press, 2000) was a winner (1 of 4) of the Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest in 1999-2000. His love of jazz has informed his haiku, and made him more aware of the musicality of the language in general, as is evident in these examples.

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

a note from my wife —
willow branches rub
the window sill
the pianist’s hands
strike the ivory lightly —
needles of rain
lazy Sunday —
green flies hover over
the halved grapefruit