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Timeline (1949 - )

Gabriel Rosenstock, Gabriel Rosenstock poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Primal/Tribal/Shamanic poetry

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Original Language
English

faint sunlight

Commentary by
Ivan M. Granger

Recommended Books

	Bliain an Bhandé - Year of the Goddess, by Gabriel Rosenstock
	Cold Moon: The Erotic Haiku of Gabriel Rosenstock, by Gabriel Rosenstock
	Portrait of the Artist as an Abominable Snowman, by Gabriel Rosenstock
	Treasury of Irish Love Poems, Proverbs & Triads in Irish and English, Edited by Gabriel Rosenstock

faint sunlight
injecting the veins
of a falling leaf

-- from Haiku: The Art of Disappearing, by Gabriel Rosenstock (unpublished manuscript)

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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...

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