Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: The Wizard’s Rook

partridge_thewizardsrookBrent Partridge is well into his fifth decade of involvement with haiku. Here he offers that most traditional of Japanese forms — a solo renga of 100 links (AHA Chapbooks, 1990) of which we offer links 11-20 — with a decidedly modern twist.

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.


at the river’s bend,
cliffs; winds entrance
beyond complexity
    new moonset
they leave the college rooftops
encounters
with flower colors
in the cold light
south seven miles
of immediacy rather than distance
cold fog
a ghost regards me
     as fleeting
I don’t have to say anything
and that’s an understatement
mist rises
from a field of mustard
to join the haze
excited, a bird flies low
its mate through the branches
if a skunk
steps ‘round the corner
speak politely
frost on the hawks’ fathers
it sits and watches

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