blinking

Tiny green eyes

Wifi box blinking all night

Watching over dreams.

koala

Tonight's sleep broken,
A leopard growl from baby
Faced koala bear.

moist

Invisible bugs
Tickling the moist grass,
The laughing rain!

horse

Pig squealing loudly..

I always think it’s a horse,

but only at first.

dawn

Koukaburra dawn
The silent trees cracked wide
Under weight of laugh.

death

Death's cloud

Pasted upon the pale sky,
Who's tragic X ray?

silver

Through starry night sky
Sealed in a silver capsule,
Guy next to me snores.

hope

Fishing boats,.. lit up!
Poised on the Indian sea.
The night: full of hope.

pond

Geese on the pond

Your serenity confounds

Me, with broken wing.

plastic

Twelve geckos I see,

Walls and ceilings their playground,

So real, like plastic!

call

An autumn sunrise,
A bird call reminding me
Of winter's long voyage.

river

Uneven river,

A black beetle crossing floor

With thick black boots.

brambles

Into city streets
These country hands; cut and bruised
From autumn brambles.

daydreams

A spider sleeping,
A tornado of daydreams:
The vacuum cleaner!

grief

Splitting winter logs,
Slicing tiny lives in half.
Ah, the smallest grief!

laugh

Tickling Acaccia tree
Before leaves fall and die
Mistral's last laugh!

spring

                                                 Gaston Chaissac


Under wintry sky
The tractor man alone
Preparing for spring

steps

Stepping from Shower

Memory of mossy steps

To kindergarten.

lunch

Eating grey clouds 

For lunch before Mistral

Sweeping sky clean.

green

The preying mantis,
Turning its green head 
To face the cat.

moon

Adolescent moon
Riding the autumn clouds
Like no tomorrow.

trace

Invisible trace,
The nocturnal snail
Betrayed by morning sun.

cotton

Rain came through last night, 

Leaves glisten sky like cotton,

Chairs wet my bottom.

famous!

Walking by fish pond

Suddenly so famous!

Goldfish come to greet.

epic

An epic battle

For a Japanese B film.

Two ants go at it.

bomb!

How to cross terrace?

Ants everywhere

Feel like atom bomb!

foot

Short tail! poor lizard!

was it a bird or a big foot?

now just salami!

cloud

Strewn over terrace

Under cloud of Modern Art

Leaves carefully arranged.

roses

Pale withered roses,

Friends tell me to cut them off.

Cutting friends, simpler!

pricks

Cactus makes new mitts
No matter that it seems dead
Soon, little green pricks.

refuge

Refuge from the storm,
Me, a man who writes haiku;
Who pets lonely dogs.

white

I'm a white tourist,
That's me in the dark countries 
Who feeds mangy cats.

orchard

Orchards of color,
Field of plastic bags.
Moroccan flowers.

pockets

Into my pockets,
Poor horses of Marrakesh,
Saving each of you!

song

Morocco morning,
Choking the song of small bird;
Air conditioner.

red

The delicious trees!
Jumping out of the yellow field
A red popsicle!

bewildered

After the rainstorm
Bewildered lizard opens
Kitchen window.

guests

When guests visit me,

How to tell them to take care?

So many crickets!

wind

Autumn lovers;
When the East wind undresses
The solitary birch.

hare

Hare; in the headlights

Runs like me into darkness

Then turns back again.

grey

Cloud hesitation,
A painter ruminates
The grey nuances.

jokes

Telling bawdy jokes,
These crows, do little else
To welcome the autumn.

caskets

Jumping crickets

In search of winter homes?

Or tiny caskets?

friends

Woodpecker you're back!

Did you have a good summer?

With family, or friends?

geese

Screams of bloody murder

Geese next door so excited

All for the postman!

scream

This evening's moon 
Held hostage 
To an owl's scream.

window

A lost butterfly

I, too, see my heart beating

Between window panes.

umbrella

Hibiscus rain
Autumn's late bloomer,
The red umbrella's!

kiss

 

Puckering my lips,
Meeting the full moon head on,
Lunging for a kiss!

rubies

An autumn sunset

Forest flickers with rubies

Trees wearing red rings.