WINTER HAIKU 99

teddy bear
both eyes and arms
wide open


your postcard from
last summer
still smells of figs


with a single word
mere echo of breath
avalanche released


snow
last notes of the angelus
silence


black flight of starlings
dive and soars in winter dusk
changing in shape and size


golden childhood
treasured
in memory banks


again this year
vertically challanged
christmas tree


your pauses
on the phone
speak volumes


returning late
young man forgets
the third step creaks

spring
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