Haikanoes
By Robin Ouzman Hislop

i.

Sultry blue descends
Through slow cloud collide-divide
Into green torpor

ii.

Sculptured heart’s veins
Leap from imprisoning wall
Capturing a heart

iii.

Captured heart’s veins
Leap from imprisoning wall
Sculpturing a heart

iv.

In a high window
Faire green marijuana
Springs in southern light.

v.

Tramontana in
Madrid light on light melts
Black into corners
Daylight flickers furtively
On the blade of Mack the Knife.

*Tramontana: summer tempest.

vi.

The window open,
The fleeting rider has passed
& will not return.

vii.

To a Wilting Weed.

Under the silver
moon drink night´s water in shade,
embrace dawn & bloom.

viii.

Black chrome gleams silk sheen,
a black Madrid night shining
through African dust.

ix.

My brother is on
the ridge & I on the bridge,
below, same suburbs.

x.

Day descends darkly
Entertaining hidden winds
Yet to be unleashed.

xi.

Leave O morning fly
For by twilight you will die
‘Neath another sky

xii.

August’s golden sun
Died in a blaze of glory
September’s bloom falls.



xiii.

Full September moon
Waxes silver on silver
Birch Fly Agaric.

Copyright Robin Ouzman Hislop 2003
All rights reserved.

Haikanoes