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Book of the Week: Oklahoma Heat

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Marc Thompson takes us home with him as he contrasts his contemporary experience of Oklahoma with that of his memory in this colorful chapbook from 2006 (Red Moon Press).

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

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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, following a concept first explored by Tom Clausen, and are used with permission.





ninety-two degrees
at ten in the morning
home


old saloon
the sidewalk cracks filled
with petunias



Sunday afternoon
the neon diner sign
unlit


family reunion
the cries of cicadas
fill the night



a broken child
in the firefighter’s arms
collateral damage


a cattle truck
rattles the small motel
heat shimmer

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  1. Can’t say how much I enjoyed this, I think I’ll keep that to myself. Just pure magic, and about a place, albeit a large one. Wonderful.

    Alan

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