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Volume 33.2
Summer 2002

book review

On the Second Day: A Haiku Sequence with Pictorial Reflections
by David Brady

 

Reviewed by Robert Spiess

On the second day: a haiku sequence with pictorial reflections, by David Brady (self-published, 2001). 42 pages, paper. $5.00/£3.00 postpaid from the author at 121 Norwood Road, Stretford, Manchester M32 8PP, UK.

This chapbook-size booklet has four (usually) poems on the left pages and interesting photographs or paintings in color or black and white on the left pages. A sampling of the poems:

my hand’s shadow
reaching
to turn out the light

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raven’s ragged wings
go sailing, tilting, drifting
since the pitching ark

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old ones
by the Post Office
gaze at the sky

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wedding photograph—
the hair on the knees
of the Scottish piper

Well manufactured, although the italic type size for the poems is a bit small.

 

 

 

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