The Man Made Of Haikus

The Man Made of Haiku #1 a bent head lying on the side of a breastbone sweating under the rain #2 a left foot supporting a bleeding right foot limp and in the shade #3 a left hand spasms running along its fingers end protruding #4 a right hand at long last still as if dead motionlessness #5 wind blowing wildly on the skull wild hair the mound wet with rain #6 carving through skin and flesh remnants of voyages unpared toenails #7 mighty and mysterious a shiny veiny left biceps bemutes the ages #8 as one of us shivering under the angry cold stars right elbow #9 muscular thighs remember adventures and fights and sloughy darkness #10 deeply scarred © Copyright Rodolphe Blet 2009

by the damp, black, erect, thorny hair the sad, white forehead #11 raindrops falling by thousands on the showing rib soothe the blood #12 intolerable beauty in the delicate fold on the neck omphalos of the world #13 anonymous hands piercing through and through and again doubts and agony #14 words banging on the wooden carcass of the mouth parched with thirst and glory #15 unbeknownst to them the sad immobility undeciphered #16 imbecile man not yet dead waiting for what – stop their agony – #17 betrayed and naked the lame man is leaving an empty cenotaph #18 beyond the words is what this here lonely man feels and the key to all riddles #19 The cicadas’ cry forgotten images of childhood forgotten to the world #20 © Copyright Rodolphe Blet 2009

the thrush’s song in the clear resounding morning he suddenly remembers #21 the large cut on his flank bleeds and bleeds and bleeds water like Pegasus’ spring #22 The hammered nail Ignores bones tendons veins and blood Wood only stops him #23 Sweatbead, tear, rain, lymph Wound-precipice Shame and honour #24 to endure as sole commandment nothing to worry about but the rain

© Copyright Rodolphe Blet 2009