Bristol, RI: privately printed, 2008.
Pamphlet, 4.25×3.75 in (11×9.5 cm), unpaged. Free for s.a.s.e. to the author at 31 Seal Island Rd., Bristol, RI 02809.
Front cover image as at left (about 2/3rds life-size, depending on your monitor resolution and so on). Pretty neatly enigmatic, especially with the close-quote omitted, suggesting that there is more of the quotation inside.
With thanks to the author.
I’m particularly fond of small pamphlet haiku books, as their unostentatious size and format go nicely with the notion of simple and direct haiku, though of course haiku are not always so. And it encourages a one-to-a-page presentation, as found here.
After a title page with what appears to be a simple line drawing of one of the “pilgrim stones” mentioned in title and text, the booklet begins with a brief introduction to this subject, that is, stones that have migrated from one place or another to take up temporary residence in the author’s field of view, and more permanently in his poems. The first one:
ridge shadow
at the stream
with other stones
One from the pair at centerfold:
pebbled shore
she turns away
to breast feed
And one from about two-thirds through, that I happen to especially like:
quick-running brook . . .
a stone from the bottom
lighter than imagined
Nearly twenty haiku here, well worth the attention brought to their pilgrimage on the pages of this small piece received in the mail.
Bill
Wordfield's Haikai Pub 