Book of the Week: The Broken Iris

Tom Smith is an accomplished novelist, anagramist and long-poet who turned his attentions to haiku in the late 1980s. His first collection, The Broken Iris (Persephone Press, 1990), captures well his sensibility and thematic interests: gentle images of the natural phenomena of Vermont, and vignettes centered on family, and in particular the adventures of his two boys.

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

Twelfth Night
fishermen on the ice
by moonlight
a red bird breaks
from the hedgerow the sun
from the clouds
barn dance
in the cornfield
crickets