Book of the Week: The Elements
Hans Reddingius has produced a very small output of haiku, so it is appropriate, perhaps, that his only collection come in the Dutch Radijs (Radish) series (2002), handbound books that measure only 2 x 3 inches. However, the calibre of Hans’s work is anything but small—you will find full-blown nature empathy, philosophical musing, a wry humor at the human condition, and much more in this slender volume, in English and Dutch.
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.
rain circles in the mirroring water— a water henthe elements: clouds, rocks, sand, the sea, tough, pushing verduremorning mist between softly green dykes the river glistensa bit of fluff moves across the tile— it walks on pawsholiday cottage— three garden gnomes grinning in the rainafter the disaster they run in all directions: I took away their stone
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Mt favorite from the book reminds me of Arnold’s Dover Beach:
the cross on the spire
the gull on the cross
screeching in the cold