Book of the Week: the sweet potato sutra

Michael Fessler, an expatriate American university professor long residing in Japan, has written piquant haiku and haibun for the last couple decades. This slim volume (bottle rockets press, 2004) is an excellent sampler of his considerable talents.

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, and are used with permission.

heat wave
the eyes of dried sardines
stare from a jar

beating a rug
the solution
comes to me

irises . . .
this year my eyes
keep finding them

autumn semester
a leaf wafts over the fence
into the real world

gym bag
left at the bus stop
winter rain

the hydrangeas
have turned
this haiku blue