Haiku Train

[Marc]

9.00 hour.
Twelve, three, six o' clock and nine.
Dissolving our time.

[arunansu]

Dissolving our time
through the neck of an hour glass
sand trickles

[Marc]

Sand trickles, tickles
like the feet of many ants.
I must change my pants.

[arunansu]

I must change my pants.
I've waded through flooded lanes
filled with tears.

[Marc]

Filled with tears, the sky
is ripped and torn. Through the tears
fall many teardrops.

[arunansu]

fall many teardrops
throughout the night
stars burn down

[Marc]

Stars burn down their mansions
On Hollywood Boulevard.
Cinema is dead.

[Lake]

Cinema is dead -
we watch film
on-line

[kozmikdave]

We watch film on-line,
wading into pop corn and
sofacose staring.

[juliadebeauvoir]

Sofacose staring
all the rage in Wisconsin.
We lead boring lives.

[Marc]

"We lead boring lives"
said the termite to his friend.
"Boring to the end".

[Lake]

boring to the end -
dropping the dead mouse, the cat
runs after a bird

[arunansu]

runs after a bird
a shadow
a pterodactyl

[oranggunung]

A pterodactyl
spread skin across its fingers -
what a sleight of hand!

[Lake]

what a sleight of hand
trees grass all one green
spring breeze

[arunansu]

spring breeze
guides honeybees
towards sunflowers

[Marc]

Towards "Sunflowers"
he stumbled, slicing his ear.
Then falling down drunk.

[arunansu]

Then falling down drunk
he whispered to Ganguin
his love for sunflowers

[Lake]

his love for sunflowers
grows stronger as
the sun rises

[arunansu]

the sun rises
born from a river; a Sadhu
lights a fresh cigar

[juliadebeauvoir]

Lights a fresh cigar,
thinks he looks so debonair,
coughs up a black lung.

[Michelle]

coughs up a black lung
but continues to inhale
his voice rasps thinly

[oranggunung]

his voice rasps thinly
and his laugh grates terribly
he’s quite abrasive

[Marc]

he's quite abrasive
when he sprinkles your eyelids.
Who is the sand man?

[arunansu]

Who is the sand man?
storm rattles my windows
sparrow seeks shelter