Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: Shifting With My Sandwich Hand

oates_shiftingwithmysandwichhandDavid Oates has a decided interest in the humorous side of things, never more evidenced than in this early self-published collection of (primarily) senryu from 1999.

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


Brown weed
coated in shining ice —
Cinderella


After quitting a job,
he goes to the grocery store,
buys and buys


Wife and daughter in the car ahead,
punctuating unheard conversation
hands


Carrying sleeping daughter to bed
with each of his steps
the slight wave of her feet


Around his head
as he washes dishes
tiny bubbles


Tiny raindrops shine
in my daughter’s dark hair —
starry sky

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