SAYINGS FOR THE INVISIBLE. Willmot, Rod. Windsor (Ont.), Black Moss Press, 1988. 80pp, paper, $9.95, ISBN 0-88753-172-5. Distributed by Firefly Books. Adult/Secondary Reviewed by Grace Shaw Volume 17 Number 3 1989 May A few tiny words—and so complex-such is haiku! Haiku lovers and other daring readers will delight in Rod Willmot's epigrammatic Sayings for the Invisible. Approximately three hundred haiku and haiku sequences explore a literary form not yet widely accepted in western poetics. Foremost among western haiku writers who charm the hesitant reader to explore and experiment, Willmot courageously disdains formula in phrase and image. Revelling in paradox, in the tension between the see-er and the seen, the doer and that which is done, he thrives on polarities, on opposites, on terse oxymoron. Some of the poems tell a poignant story: abortion clinic — backing away from their shouts she stumbles. In some we experience mild surprise and humour. discussing the theatre while the male nurse shaves my privates. Forward-looking and risk-taking, these poems tread a thin line between startling brilliance and disconnecting flatness. Lateral thinkers enjoy. Grace Shaw, Vancouver Community College, Vancouver, B.C.