Book of the Week: Switching Off The Shadows

Ruby Spriggs was one of the first — and best — to use the one-line format for haiku in English, several powerful examples of which appear in this collection from the Hexagram Series (King’s Road Press, 1996).

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

Life in and out of a cat’s nose

by the lake twice the moonlight

my head in the clouds in the lake

morning
all the chairs
facing the TV

snowflakes     I see the wind

switching off the lights
switching off the shadows