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