haiku-usa

A blog devoted mainly to haiku and senryu and to thoughts about, and inspired by, haiku and senryu.

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Haiku is to poetry as espresso is to coffee.

Friday, June 29, 2007

midnight

midnight
returning
thunder

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

high

high beams
on a country road
the woods speed by

Saturday, June 23, 2007

posting

posting a poem
the site doesn't
remember me

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

oh

oh, the heat!
an image of snow
to cool off

Sunday, June 17, 2007

return

driving back . . .
that carcass abandoned
even by the crow

Thursday, June 14, 2007

stranger

summer dusk
a stranger and I
share the path

Sunday, June 10, 2007

rain

summer rain
wind chimes
faintly

Friday, June 08, 2007

prayer

morning prayers
a cardinal singing
on his branch

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Mass

weekday Mass . . .
an old woman
prays the rosary

literary notes II

Patry Francis's The Liar's Diary (see "literary notes," below) is a tense and subtle thriller that includes a complex and unsentimental portrayal of female friendship. It's also remarkably successful in its treatment of its narrator-protagonist. Patry sets herself the difficult task of letting her main character tell her own story, while making sure we don't forget that this character is not a disinterested witness.

I'd be very interested in getting the reaction of women to this novel, which focuses on the experiences and viewpoint of women.

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