witness tree

paul m.

Paperback, with cover flaps
96 pages
198 mm x 129 mm / 7¾" x 5⅛"
ISBN 978-1-903543-51-1

Awards

Winner, The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award

Praise for witness tree

‘Haiku are poems of witness, poems of attention, of taking notice. With this understated but potent collection, paul m. shows once again that he is one of haiku’s finest witnesses. witness tree is a wonderful addition to the literature.’
—Michael Dylan Welch

‘Sip and savor here the spirits of a master distiller. 100 proof—at which drink becomes fire—but with a glowing, lingering finish.’
—Lee Gurga
Editor, Modern Haiku Press

About the Author

paul m. is the pen name of Paul Miller, an internationally awarded and anthologized poet and essayist. He has served as editor of Modern Haiku, the longest running haiku journal outside Japan, since 2013. Born in California in 1963, after seventeen years living in New England he now resides among the longleaf pines of the Florida Panhandle.

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Haiku

a playlist with no slow songs spring creek

growth rings
on a truckful of pine logs
the day’s last light

replacing
it
more
gently

than
I
picked
it
up

sea
star

knee-high grass
a bison’s slow rise
from the wallow

grave cleaning . . .
all winter a fallen tree
held by another