Book of the Week: This Moment

Margaret Chula has contributed to haiku in English not only through her own fine poems but through founding and operating Katsura Press, which published this extended meditation on the tea ceremony (1995) in the house’s typically elegant style. Paperback copies of the book are still available at www.margaretchula.com.

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 THF president THF president Jim Kacian, and are used with permission.

rain-soaked moss
     on the tea house wall
     a blush of rust
stooping to enter
the four and a half mat room
I shake off the dust
host and guest
breathe together
     powder becomes tea