Arborecer, southern haiku
“The author observes from outside of time, from vibrations, from the most distant thing that is also the closest. He invites us to participate in the universe and the seeds, as integral parts of the cosmos’s unfolding mechanism. He also guides us as distant observers of the immediate—a traveler through consciousness.”
Cristina Rascón, Mexico City, October 2020
“Arborecer recounts moments from this journey that have expanded my consciousness, healed my soul, and revealed the generosity and abundance of life.
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Haiku finds its completion in reading and sharing. It does not always touch the reader’s heart; this depends not only on the writer’s skill but also on the openness of the reader’s spirit. When that encounter happens, the emotion and wonder experienced by the poet are shared.
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I have arranged the haikus in this book into five notebooks, each corresponding to places where I have had or continue to have profound experiences with plants: Southern Forests, El Manzano, Ayahuasca, Garden of Gratitude, and San Pedro de Atacama.” —
Mauricio Tolosa, Santiago, Chile, October 2020
Bilingual edition in Spanish and English
Text and photographs: Mauricio Tolosa
Prologue: Cristina Rascón
English translation: Vita Cameron and Aurora López
Design: Mariluz Soto
Papyrbit Editors
12.5 cm x 21.5 cm
112 pages
Santiago de Chile, 2020
ISBN 978-956-09468-0-5
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Luis Weinstein, author, writer, poet, psychiatrist.
I read, I felt, I opened up, I grew—reading and flourishing with haikus.
The weakest aspect of humans is, without a doubt, our relationship with reality: not placing ourselves within it, not inviting a question, a dialogue, or an encounter.
I felt that both Mauricio and the haiku grew from an encounter.
I have done a first reading and will begin a daily meditation with some of them, starting with:
"Birds visit
The dock trees
Old friendship"
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In his haiku collection Arborecer, Mauricio guides us on a journey back to our own presence. As a messenger, he conveys the wisdom of trees—teaching us to dwell in stillness and silence, and through this, to listen deeply to our own inner and outer sounds.
With each haiku, we set aside haste, pausing to breathe and truly live.
We remember who we are and find our way back to the origin.
Yessica Ulloa, writer, screenwriter and Buddhist meditator.
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Gonzalo Pérez, author,
psychologist and astrologer
What a wonder ARBORECER is! His haikus are epiphanies, slipping inward like drops of green-scented dew… They blossom in the hands like a diaphanous enchantment, dissolving us into blissful contemplation. A book of almost superhuman transparency.
From Angelos—already a spell, a masterpiece—we leap now into pure light! Reading ARBORECER gently awakens us, ecstatic, in the Garden of Gratitude.