Book of the Week: North Lake

Ce Rosenow is past president of the Haiku Society of America, and author of two volumes of haiku. This is the earlier, from Mountain Gate Press in 2004.

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.

thinning mist-
more of the heron
revealed

morning drizzle
falling gently into moss
camellia blossom


shoreline breeze-
curls of green paint
on the wooden lawn-swing

early heat
steam where the sprinkler
hits the patio


rolling waves-
otter's head
bobbing between them

first time this year
easing my body
into the lake water


star gazing-
the floating dock creaks
beneath our weight

slicing peaches
with the old paring knife-
her arthritic hands


on the tree
on the ground
apples in moonlight

icy wind
the crow flies
toward dawn


with each gust
bonfire smoke
trails after the skater

reminiscing
late into the night
warmth from the wood stove


Christmas Eve-
hanging her ornaments
without her

missing you-
windows rattle
with the wind


waning moon
the slow drip
of icicles beneath the eaves

rustling leaves-
the flock of sparrows
reverses itself


wind in the pampas grass
the rowboat strains
against its mooring

after the storm-
my neighbor's empty boat
adrift on the lake