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September 2, 2019 By Garry Eaton 3 Comments

Book of the Week: Counting Star-Bones

 

 

Our Book of the Week from The Haiku Foundation Digital Library is Counting Star-Bones, by Alegria Imperial, a Philippine poet who now resides in Vancouver, Canada. In this chapbook, published in 2018 by Yavanika Press of Bangalore, India. Alegria sadly turns her brilliant, imaginative attention to the future in a degraded world.

rooting in the sky
a palm tree’s
improbability

 

hermit crab —
where can we exist
beyond this cloud?

 

storm-washed dusk
as much emptiness
as you covet

 

You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.

Do you have a chapbook published 2010 or earlier you would like featured as a Book of the Week? Contact us for details.

Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by THF Digital Librarian Garry Eaton, and are used with permission

 

Filed Under: Book-of-the-Week Archive Tagged With: Alegria Imperial, Book of the Week, Counting Star-Bones

Comments

  1. Robert Kingston says

    September 8, 2019 at 9:45 pm

    An enjoyable read Alegria.
    Thanks Garry for putting it up.

    Reply
  2. Alegria Imperial says

    September 2, 2019 at 3:16 pm

    Thank you for featuring my e-chapbook, Garry!

    Reply
    • Garry says

      September 7, 2019 at 5:32 pm

      My pleasure, Alegria.

      Reply

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