Jay Verney

The Zen of Haiku offers a thousand tiny poems in the haiku tradition. They capture moments in time, reflecting life's daily surprises, nature's ever-unfolding wonder, and the simple circadian rhythms of the Earth and her inhabitants. Each tiny poem is entire in itself, and they can be read randomly or from the very beginning. Read one or read more, it's up to you. The Zen of Haiku is a companion volume to Jay Verney's earlier collections, Zenku 365, and The Mindful Art of Verandaku (Volumes 1 and 2).

Zenku is the daughter of Haiku, the Japanese poetic form read and written around the world. Zenkus are freestyle three-line micro poems. They are of the moment, inviting mindfulness in both creator and reader. When you write a Zenku, you create your life in moments. In Zenku 365, Jay Verney offers a year of Zenkus (plus a Leap Zenku, plus spares ), and a micro workshop to guide you on your way to writing your own Zenku life. Zenkus are for everyone, and everyone can record their life's special and ordinary moments by engaging with Zenku attention. Create within and without Moving and still Your breathing life

Verandaku is the daughter of Haiku, the beloved Japanese poetic form made famous by masters like Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, and Chiyo-ni. In The Mindful Art of Verandaku, Jay Verney offers the first of two volumes of The Verandaku Project, 999 Verandakus, which began life as a humble blog, Veranda Life, consisting of poems with accompanying images, one per day for 999 days.This first volume of 333 verandakus, with selected images, is coupled with an essay about the creation of the project and a guide for anyone interested in creating their own mindful artwork.Verandaku is for everyone, and everyone can write their own verandaku memoir, daily observation, or simple offering of love to the universe in three short lines of 17 syllables. Five, seven, five is all it takes. Enjoy.

Morty Hacker hooked himself up to his portable oxygen bottle whenever he left home, which wasn't often. He'd been saving his energy for this reunion and his gigantic Cadillac had a special cradle beside the driver's seat to accommodate the oxygen. Maggie was frightened that the looping coils of plastic tubing connecting Morty wit his life support might loop themselves around the brake pedal or the accelerator and help to support an end to several lives besides Morty's. 'Who'd want to live like that' she'd asked Veronica and Veronica had said, 'A person who wants to live.'When Anna Maher accompanies her mother Maggie and grandmother Veronica to the United States for a war veterans' reunion, she is struck by the American way of denying death. The three women have a terrifying brush with their own mortality when a destructive earthquake hits Los Angeles.On the other side of the Pacific, the remaining members of the Maher family face disturbances of a different kind. Brian's liver is failing to cope with his publican's lifestyle, his second daughter's marriage has split dramatically, and his grandson has high-octane plans of his own.A sharply hilarious but very human new novel by the author of A Mortality Tale.