gogyohka

consciously choosing
my most worn out clothes
to enter the new year
as stripped
as I leave it

haiku

doing its best
tiny dog with bad eyes
barking at shadows

gogyohka seqence

a Christmas with my maternal grandmother


glass of sherry
she toasts
the picture of her husband
wishing him
a merry Christmas
 
his portrait
decorated
for the holidays
salutes her
back
 
I pick her up
to take her to
my mothers,
her daughter,
for Christmas eve
 
she's been ready
from early morning
sitting
in her finest dress
waiting, waiting
 
dropping
cheroots ashes
down her front
glaucoma on one eye
the other blinded
 
---*---
 
I took her home
and up the stairs
 
she would finish
Christmas eve
with a quiet moment
memories dancing
in vivid lights
 
the faces that
were gone ...

Gogyohka for Granddad

he let me out
into the world
with the same care
he set our toy ship sailing -
granddad


::::


granddads birthday
I salute his memory
with a decent cigar
knowing well
he would've joined in

''''''
Danish version here

senryu

young boy
with big eyes -
the fireworks sale

gogyohka / tanka

Christmas holidays
on late night tv
carnage and mayhem -
an antidote to
the season of joy?

haiku

silence of snow
now my tinnitus
is polyphonic

haiku

icy mist
naked branches bending -
flock of crows

haiku

Pompeian replica
covered in snow
not ashes

gogyohka

drawing
how many lines
can there be in one pen -

if only one
how long, then?

haiku - senryu

the hissing of Alka-Seltzers and Jingle-Bells

haiku

the fly and I
in mutual agreement
on the subject of sugar

(ad. Issa)

haiku

North star twinkling I fasten the light bulb

haiku

a beetle falling
in the empty room
”plock”

(rev. Basho)

haiku

December sun I pad my belly and put on boots

haiku

jackdaws crossing the golf course, my cigarette's gone out

haiku

Night train

night train
faces tinted blue
mirrored in windows

:-:

staring out the window
i look at the landscape
through my own face


:-:

on the platform
a black and white tv
announcing departures

gogyohka

white and white again
snow covered village
and the sky

only my cold feet telling me
which way is up ...

gogyohka

shoveling snow
cat peeps
out the window
yawns
and licks a paw

haiku

snow-covered garden
wiping the incense ashes
off the unplugged phone