Wet Afternoon - rengay

 

Robert Naczas
Jacek Margolak


    neighbour`s drill
    I try to forget
    my dental appointment

    Graduation Day—
    my son's gap-toothed smile

    watching
    Animal Planet—
    the hyenas laugh

    moving house again
    I look for a cable TV
    socket

    power cut—
    suddenly nothing to do

    lazy afternoon
    a dragonfly still
    on the same reed

sketchbook

Winter Afternoon - rengay

            math class
            I count each snowflake
            on the window*

            the whiteness of snow—

            my car needs a wash

            between my pickup
            and the school door
            ice slide

            end of shift—

            the postman carries

            a pair of skates

            an empty rink—
            the splayed paws of an old dog

            deserted square—

            the scent of mulled wine

            fills the emptiness

            

    *This verse first appeared in Abrosia: Journal of Fine Haiku,

Issue 2 — Winter 2009

Jacek   Robert

sketchbook 

Closing time - rengay

quiet afternoon—

a barber dozes off

in the armchair

rising moon—
the sheen of her long hair

watching me

with this Mona Lisa smile—

a mannequin

abandoned shop
somebody's footprints
on the dusty floor

closing time—

all the lights go out

cloudy night
I bring her a firefly
in my hands

Robert   Jacek

sketchbook

rainy day -
on the office steps,
an unemployed sparrow


transl. by Anatoly Kudryavitsky

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