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Monday, December 9, 2019

Johannes S. H. Bjerg - Not Wind, Feeding Your Mother


Johannes S. H. Bjerg: a Dane who writes in Danish and English simultaneously and mainly haiku and haiku related forms. 1 of 3 of the editors of Bones - “Journal for contemporary haiku” (http://www.bonesjournal.com), and sole editor of “the other bunny - for the other kind of haibun” (http://theotherbunny.wordpress.com) and “One Link Chain” -  a blog for solo linked verse and haiku sequences (http://onelinkchain.blogspot.dk/) Has published several books: http://january-stones.blogspot.dk/p/books.html



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Not Wind, Feeding Your Mother

open the window and let the dishes dry

open the window
and let
the dishes dry

open
the window
and let
the dishes
dry

open the window
for the fly

open the window
for the fly

open the window
for the fly

and let the dishes dry

open the window for the fly and let the dishes dry

open
the window

and let that
which wants to come in

come in

and that
which wants to get out

get out

open
the window
and
let
the dishes
dry

.
kairos

you get up

to open
the window
for the fly

and let the dishes dry

.

you’re not
just wind

you’re not
only wind

you’ re wind
too

and creaking

as you sit

being
a window

.


even when feeding your mother
you take up
less space
than the things
you own

even when feeding your mother
you’re not the wind

.

September
drags you out

from where
you thought
you were

by
and not
on
the road

into
the wind

you imagine

.

get up
sit down

your place

doesn’t care

get up

open
the window

and let
the dishes
dry

in September’s
wind

your place
doesn’t care

the wind
doesn’t care

.

still green September

September green still

green September still

green still September

still

.

postpone
a dentist
appointment

to feed
your mother

.

be
obsessive
with your
food

or
watch

the wind

.

you’re not the wind

you’re not a dish

you’re not a fly

you’re feeding your mother

you own things

you’re not the wind

you feed your mother

you own things

.

you
sit

and
watch

a fly

you
sit

and
watch

the wind

you
sit

and
watch

yourself

watching
a fly

yourself

watching
the wind

you imagine

you imagine

you imagine

yourself

watching
the wind

watching
the wind

watching
the wind

you
imagine
yourself

you
imagine
your
self

and
the wind

feeding
your
mother

you
imagine

your
self

as
a
wind

feeding
your
mother

.