Seeds from a Birch Tree

This morning's coffee was accompanied by a delicious book that recently arrived in the mail - "Seeds from a Birch Tree" by Clark Strand.

One of my bad habits is reading about writing instead of writing. Another bad habit is reading about spirituality instead of saying my prayers, and so Clark’s book is the perfect indulgence.  The subtitle is "Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey".

I haven't written any haiku yet, so I'll give you one of Strand's: 

sparrows flutter down

into bushes full of light

without any leaves.