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.