Book of the Week – The Winter Garden by Jack Barry

An excerpt from The Haiku Circle – “In the case of haiku, Jack often has a pen and paper at the ready in his pockets. He is a dedicated gardener, banjo player and Vispassana meditator.”

tangled sheets
trying to remember
poems from a dream

your lips in the morning frantic geese

following the wrack line
the one-legged gull’s
perfect prints

banjo
suddenly
out
of
tune
first
evening
cool

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