Raven Braids the Wind: Haiku: A Life in Syllables

Raven Braids the Wind

A moving collection of haiku poetry that is at once a reflection on nature, diary of days, and exploration of life during the second year of the Covid pandemic. Raven Braids the Wind started with a simple assignment in elementary school-write a haiku. That first haiku-Lonely people live/within themselves like dusty/books upon a shelf-is, a senryu (a haiku poem focused on personal reflection or comment about the self or world). Thousands of haiku later, this poetic form ...