Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: The Tree It Was

fuhringer_thetreeitwascoverSandra Fuhringer is a past president of Haiku Canada. This chapbook, part of the Hexagram Series (King’s Road Press, 2002), takes as one of its themes the confrontation with illness—something with which she is all too acquainted with—and, in a larger sense, recovery from it, as well as from what is.

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.


anemic
white crocus
pushing through


five tries to get a vein
the leaf’s purple
underside


a second time
the full moon
from this white room


nightfall . . .
the zoo keeper
lets himself out


snowbound
colouring inside
the lines


twilight stars
one by one
the children called home

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  1. Incredibly strong, vital, modern and still very contemporary haiku. Thank you to the author, and to THF, for making this available to a larger audience.

    Alan, With Words

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