faint sunlight

by Gabriel Rosenstock


Original Language Irish & English

faint sunlight
     injecting the veins
          of a falling leaf

-- from Where Light Begins: Haiku, by Gabriel Rosenstock

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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

In its three lines, this haiku accomplishes what all haiku aspire to: It stuns you into silence. On the surface, it is a snapshot of an instant in nature, but the radiance of the sunlight transforming the leaf that has abandoned itself suggests so much more...








faint sunlight