Book of the Week: Where Pelicans Fly

Nina Wicker’s oversize letterpress volume (Honeybrook Press, 1991) is a study of fragility and resiliency, and one of the handsomest haiku chapbooks ever produced, a scant 14 poems in two-color printing on subtly coordinated sheets.

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.

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backed-up traffic
ship under the drawbridge
lightning everywhere

opening the beach house
smell of the old sea
	and the new

full moon rises—
the lone sea turtle covers
her “one-in-a-thousand”

feeding on the strand
the one-legged shorebird lags
until the flock flies

last day of summer
a cricket’s plaintive cry
from a closed suitcase

autumn seashore
below gliding pelicans
a caged bird sings