It's a fine book. It pays mature honor to experience, perhaps the most difficult of things to do with words. It's a pleasure to read, but painful too at times. It's as fresh as Pacific air. --Richard Hugo

John Haislip's poems and prose are made of water, fish, trees, boats, wind and sky that he loves. He has been nurtured for years by the northwest landscape and he has cherished it with his words. This is distinctive, pristine and thoroughly enjoyable writing --Paul Zimmer

from "Why Indelible Ink, Surely, Was Invented During the Punic Wars"

There's a small sailboat coming up from the south.
It's taking some water over the bows and wallowing badly at times.
I can see in my binoculars it's having trouble keeping the mainsail taught.
I fear for it, and wonder about the sudden accumulation of whitecaps....

28 poems, 52 pages
ISBN: 0-935306-23-4
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