Tuesday, July 5, 2016

I like Kooser

The sweetest little poem by Kooser from "Splitting an order":
"Grandfather
A breeze chased his pipe smoke
out over the river; and later he followed
carrying all the tackle."
How perfect this is.

Chicago flight

In haibun (a literary form originating in Japan), prose and verse (mostly haiku) coexist; the transition between them  brings on a “shift” t...