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Volume
33.2
Summer 2002
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book
review
Blush
of Winter Moon: Haiku
by Patricia Machmiller
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reviewed
by Robert Spiess
Blush
of Winter Moon: Haiku by Patricia J. Machmiller,
with sumi-e by Mary Hill (San Jose, CA: Jacaranda
Press, 2001). 98 pages, paper, perfectbound, 8 1/2"
x 9"; $18.00 postpaid from the author at 1963
Josephine Ave., San Jose, CA 95124.
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This
is a large-format lavishly produced. book of haiku by Patricia
Machmiller. The stock is of heavy quality and each page
has from one to three haiku. The sumi-e are pleasingly executed
and occupy from part of a page to a full page. A representative
selection:
long
night: not saying
which topics to leave
alone
we talk around them |
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riding
the last train
I peer into the long night
—my own reflection |
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summer
sea, mint-green—
there's something in its sound of . . .
remoteness, of . . . calm |
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intersecting
lines—
in the far distance a train
becomes the spring sky |
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where
once an orchard
stumps now, each brandishing its
thick shock of leaves |
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At
Arlington Cemetery
Oak
leaves, each perfect
in its way, lie in clusters
where
they have fallen
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In
a brief biography, Patricia Machmiller is shown to have
a technical background: she majored in mathematics and chemistry
at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and
worked for thirty-three years in Silicon Valley in aerospace
industries, from which she retired in 1998.
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