Tag: haiku
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My Haiku
I read an important little book written by a nun when I lived in Nagoya, Japan. I guess I was thirty-two or thirty-three years old. I got the little book, small in trim size and under sixty pages in length, at the international book store two floors below my office. We were on the fifth…
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Licentious People: Complete Text of My Long Short Story
I offer you here an example of my fiction. It is a short story from my book of collected fiction, Overone. It is available at Amazon Books by the title Overone, author John Battle. The arc of time cut cruelly for Sister Jean Patrice. She loved poetry and teaching and writing, but now she loved…
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