istanbul trilogy- haiku about istanbul catching jellyfishin turbulent bosphorus millions watching us in autumn sunshine churches hide in the market we can see them all among wet columns history makes a quantum leap -pale glow of screens nevsehir trilogy- i lived for 2 years in nevsehir, a town in cappadocia in central turkey, when i was a child through dusty streetsi run with dirty children sick ones are behind the mud feels cool as my small fingers shape it on the potter's wheel a cool draft rises from a black bottomless shaft -underground city insomnia trilogy- written on a sleepless summer night in istanbul light of the timergoes on and off in the dark -i watch it all night like restless moths visions fly inside my head -no sleep tonight my pillow hates me my bed wants to throw me out -insomnia scifiku trilogy- science fiction haiku. i got the idea from the internet stuck in ancient romethe romans cannot repair my time machine now you see me and now you dont camouflage outfit shut my eyes on earth opened them on the moon teleportation tokyo trilogy- in september 1999, on the night of the harvest moon, i took the shinkansen hikari from tokyo to kyoto and wrote the following haiku on the train alone in tokyowhite light of the harvest moon falls only on me shinkansen runs fast soon I will be in kyoto thinking of tokyo are the neon lights brighter than the harvest moon i cannot decide >back to the Castle Keep |