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Volume 33.2
Summer 2002

book review

Arriving
by Linda Robeck

 

reviewed by Robert Spiess

Arriving by Linda Robeck (Galadriel's Garden Press, 2001). 78 pages, paper, perfectbound, $7.00, From the author at 153 Kimball Road, Amesbury, MA 01913.

 

This book of haiku and senryu is Linda Robeck's first. Many of its one-to-a-page poems have previously been published in a dozen periodicals. The type is simple and of very easily read size. A selection of six:

mating season
the slow tumble of crows
in the air

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pay cut
suddenly the price
of everything

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new wife—
the hesitation
before the signature

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home from the vet
in the empty yard
a dish of rain

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whispered secrets
the drowsing cat
flicks an ear

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tomorrow
the heart-shaped chocolates
half price

Linda Robeck, too, has a scientific background: aerospace engineering degrees from MIT and Stanford University, and 20 years of employment with NASA In which she worked on a variety of projects concerned with space exploration missions.

 

 

 

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