fish kiss (poems for inner rooms)

'fish kiss' is Volume 5 of Poems for Inner Rooms and the sub-title for this book is 'becoming still'. If you are searching for the quiet within and wish to stay with the quiet even if it is just for an hour or so, then this volume is for you because it has a zen approach. Words are distilled to find the quiet and silence of the moment.

Here is one example from this volume :-


water trough . . .
a horse
drinking sky


This book of 90 poems belongs to a collection of life journals written as contemporary haiku and tanka. These are poems for inner rooms. They take poetry into the realm of spirit and are touched by zen, loss, joy, the surreal, temps perdu, the erotic, humour, truth, the everyday, and the sublime. All the six senses are here.

The book has been edited to be experienced two ways. It can be read as a storybook and as an anthology of individual poems.

ai li ‘s poems have been widely published in the UK, USA, and Japan. One of her six word haiku has been included in 'Haiku in English - The First Hundred Years' which features work by Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, E E Cummings and many others, and is published in hardback by WW Norton & Co, New York [date of publication 17 september 2013]. She has also created several original linked forms akin to renku aka renga. She lives quietly and mindfully in London and writes in a rousseau inspired dream yard watched over by three old stone buddhas.

ai li is the founding editor and publisher of still, moving into breath and dew-on-line.