INCANTATION

Horror Haiku Series

By:
Gergana Yaninska (G)
Vessislava Savova (V)
Maya Lyubenova (M)
Ilyana Deleva (I)

a new coat
the cats in the neighborhood
missing
(G)

fool moon –
the bride reads
Macbeth
(V)

stabbed
on an icicle –
the hanging moon
(M)

soup
the dolls’ heads float
in green
(I)

fish in the concrete
their scales
glimmer
(M)

first wife
her shadow forgotten
on the wash line
(G)

baby’s cry
a knife stabbed into
the lamb’s head
(I)

the sky
covered with asphalt…
wet dreams
(M)

divorce
the abandoned wife stirs
a magic potion
(V)

faded blossom
in the cobweb
a butterfly
(I)

retirees
playing cards in the pub
skeletons
(G)

icicles
a jutting out leg
of an old table
(V)

spring thaw…
a dog pees on the corpse
of a snowman
(M)

gloomy morning
croaking invisible
in the city center
(I)

cemetery park
she sells her mother-in-law’s
grave plot
(G)

owl
a landslide reaches
the graveyard
(V)

a creaking branch
reaches out
…graveyard path
(M)

downpour
at the end of the funeral procession
a mute crow
(V)

fresh grave…
in the nearby bushes
a loud cricket
(M)

memorial service
one more shadow
on the wall
(V)

the railway hangs
over cemetery park
Hope
(I)

sunset road
at the exit of town
two ravens
(М)

диви люляци ~ wild lilacs