Book of the Week: Winter Sunlight

David Burleigh has made a consistently strong argument for a longer (Irish) line and more nearly formal (Japanese) approach to English-language haiku through his own mellifluous poetry. These, handsomely self-published in 1992, are more evidence to that end.

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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.

On a sharp corner
leaning back from the traffic
into sweet daphne

A New Testament
forgotten on a college bench—
spring zelkova

A ball in springtime
making its way downriver
slowly to the sea

The first autumn leaves
blowing through the open door
of a coffee shop

Cleaning the windows
on a winter afternoon—
a passing airship

Waking at New Year
and trying to remember
the very first dream