Book of the Week: through a window

kristine young’s beautiful thematic volume (Baka Press, 1979) is one of the first books of sequential haibun in the language, making for an instructive and compelling reading experience.

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.

awakened by
the sunrise
through the window

spring wind
coming in the window
a black fly too


midnight
first found voice
of a cicada

cicada sings
even with its last breathing
early  morning mist


a rip
in the winter cloud cover
blue sky shows through

afternoon sun
filling the branches
of a winter tree