Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: Words on the Wind

norton_wordsonthewindJim Norton founded and edited the Zen-infused and beautiful Haiku Spirit — Ireland’s first haiku journal — for years, and his own work reveals a predilection for the same sort of material, evidenced in this characteristic book from 1997 (Waning Moon Press).

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.


You walking ahead
   the grass springing back
      erases your steps


Just echoing boards
   this empty house
      where we laughed and cried


Lengthening
   the snail’s shadow
      draws out the sun


In the hermit’s church
   butterflies are mating
      on broken gravestones


Its sweet tang —
   a neighbour’s turf-smoke
      evening breeze


This butterfly
   has chosen a thistle-flower
      to fall asleep on

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