Book of the Week: over our heads

Michael Ketchek’s poignant 2010 chapbook from Swamp Press featured fine letterpress in a bronze rectangular yet hexagonal shape with a dark blue inset circle that shifts at the top of each page from the cover and throughout the collection, which was impossible to recreate in this format.

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.

twilight
the ash still in the shape
of the cigarette

sometimes
it's just better to
Boop Boop de Boop


my hand too large
a child reaches through the fence
and plucks the raspberry

Bukowski is dead
he always suspected
he would be


dancing
at the day care
I'm the Maypole

midday sun
all that chrome
outside the biker bar