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
hands shadow
reaching
to turn out the light
ravens
ragged wings
go sailing, tilting, drifting
since the pitching ark
old
ones
by the Post Office
gaze at the sky
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.