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Book of the Week: Turn to the Earth

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Peter Yovu, who has come to be identified with cutting-edge haiku, began, as many of us did, in a more traditional vein, evidenced in this award-winning chapbook from Saki Press (2004).

You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.

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All haiku in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Tom Clausen, and are used with permission.




heavy with seed
sunflowers
turn to earth


waving goodbye
she keeps one hand
on the unborn



the mountain path
winding up
at a snail


calm sea
teaching my son
the dead man's float



the river floor—
crayfish walking across
a mosaic of light


day almost over—
mayflies follow the river
down to the sun


motel mirror—
I too am
just passing through


Indian summer—
a monarch floats over
the empty pool



among fallen apples
the stallion
stamps his hoof

This Post Has 4 Comments

  1. Peter’s poems are held aloft by sound, the music of his voice that is him and something more: the border between without and within is permeable: the path winds up at a snail and the snail winds up us, within and without.

  3. Peter Yovu is a top-notch writer, evidenced here by poems such as the poignant “waving goodbye” and the didn’t see that coming ” the mountain path”.

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