Downhill Home

Chuck Brickley

Paperback, with cover flaps
114 pages
198 mm x 129 mm / 7¾" x 5⅛"
ISBN 978-1-903543-61-0

Awards

Winner, The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award

“This full-length work demonstrates that the medium of one-breath poetry is still rich with creative possibilities. . . . downhill home is a remarkable achievement and deeply worthy of this Touchstone Award!”

Praise for Downhill Home

‘A haiku book of tremendous joy, wisdom and compassion.’
—E.H. Mann, Green Apple Books

‘downhill home is nothing short of an offering, revealing how wisdom deepens when we see with our hearts and how a single moment can expand our understanding. These exquisitely crafted poems reflect what it means to care for this world and those with whom we share it. This book is amazing.’
—Ce Rosenow
Past President, Haiku Society of America

‘Chuck Brickley is a master of shokumoku, or “glimpse”. These haiku and senryu from the San Francisco Bay Area reverberate not only with the tragic stories of our time, but also with the joyful moments of our daily life. I really love them.’
—Shigeyoshi Hara
Professor Emeritus, Dokkyo University, Japan
Translator of Danger on Peaks, and other works by Gary Snyder

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Haiku & Senryu

alley frost
except
where he slept

sunken hardhat
a few minnows resting
from the current

shellmound
         all the stars
we can’t see anymore

New Year’s morning
not one child
has shot another

our embrace
the frayed white curtains
billowing inside

just one more cartwheel the Milky Way

From the author of Earthshine