REACTIONS TO RECENT READS

As part of National Poetry Month, (just past in April) I wrote four haikus in reaction to recent books I had read. I thought I'd share them here as well—it was a terrific exercise in reading and writing!

For The Girl on a Train…

WOMAN ON A METRO

On a metro car:
See or hear nothing, feel less.
Days of driving rain.


For The Buried Giant…

FOREVER TODAY

No past, no future—
misted memories, but all
connect, remember?


For The Great Gatsby…

THE POOL CLEANER

I cleaned the swim pool—
after cops fished Gatsby out—
more work, no more pay.


For The Collected Poems of Robert Frost…

A LOST WRITER

I don’t know these woods—
what crossroad to travel now—
lead me there, poet.


—Caroline Bock is the author of the critically acclaimed young adult novels: BEFORE MY EYES (St. Martin’s Press, 2014) and LIE (St. Martin’s Press, 2011) and is a freelance bookseller at Politics and Prose.

Before My Eyes