Frank Corcoran: FIVE HAIKUS 2011
( = Lieder for Tenor and Piano )
Five dogs or seven
Snarl in the cold evening air
Barking: “Kill the Spring!”
Who goes here? Summer!
My pen glides on white paper
Soft horns, clarinets
Bits of sticky sleep
My eye tries to see itself
Morning birds chitter
Suppose God is light
A mountain´s shadow purple?
“Ciúnas, a h-anaim!”
Whisper “that sunset
Tiptoes through this, my window….”
Well, is this then death?