Update – Simple Pleasures: Haiku from the Place Just Right

the pond in winter windswept snow, crystalline sky frigid air, silence Just for the Fun of It After several years of reading haiku and reading about haiku, I was inspired to write my first haiku this past August. One haiku led to another, then another, as my husband drove me around the northern New England … Continue reading Update – Simple Pleasures: Haiku from the Place Just Right

#Bookreview: Minus One

My Review The poems in Elizabeth Merry’s collection, Minus One: The Story of a Life, are rich and nuanced with the fluidity of time and memory. I found myself rereading a number of them, each time with a new layer of meaning revealed. Minus One is the poetry of paradox: death in life visible in … Continue reading #Bookreview: Minus One