Book of the Week: Weathergrams

Lloyd Reynolds was one of Gary Snyder’s professors at Reed College, possibly the person who introduced Snyder to haiku, and a lifelong devotee of calligraphy, which talent he used to create his weathergrams—haiku strips hung on trees— and this beautiful book (Society for Italic Handwriting, 1972).

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.

Dewdrops,
   what’s
      your hurry?

A few inches
of puddle
   — miles
       of sky

Starlight
   moonlight
      sunlight
   — & we still
                bump
   into things

A night owl
      swooped by
   — or did it?

Fir cones
   think fir forests
      a sure thing

Years ago
   we climbed
      that mountain
   now hidden
      in mist