Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: you aim to love

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nick avis is one of our most gifted visual poets, and has a special penchant for love poems (not so common in literary haiku as one might suppose). This elegant small book from 1988 (burnt lake press) combines these interests in a striking fashion.

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.





summer solstice
  		     the thin white line
		     around her suntanned hips


   cool night
feeling the heat
          from her sunburnt legs



the telephone
rings only once
               autumn rain


can   d   le     light     ting     sh     adow   sin    her   f   ace



in her sleep
she whispers a name
                      night deepens


raising the hem
of her new dress
the day now longer

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  1. Some of my favorites in this nick avis collection:

    ” the telephone”, ” reading her letter”, and ” she combs my hair”.

    she combs my hair
    with her hands
    mist among the trees

    ~ nick avis

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