Pine Silence : Collected Haibun

A haibun is terse prose intermixed with haiku (or tanka). Perhaps the following excerpt from "Clean and Clear" illustrates a haibun: ". . .As I watched the brown leaves and small limbs being cleaned out, I dimly understood that this was a kind of truth, which I finally realized a few years ago. Cleaning the spring I felt was similar to clearing the detritus from consciousness to experience the clarity. red salamanders clean cold clear water bubbles from source"