Myron Lysenko

rock climb

every step has its own

waterfall

Windfall Issue 2, 2014

slow to rise a snail crawls up my bedroom door

paper wasp Vol19, #4, Summer 2013

in the wind

       a falling leaf

           stops falling

Famous Reporter #28, Dec 2003

a blackbird

flies towards the moon—

cancer ward

Notes for the Translators, Dec 2012

rose petals

she begins to lose

her hair

Creatrix #17 June 2012

she finds

her great grandmother —

lichen on the stone

The Heron’s Nest Volume VIII, Number 3: September, 2006.

grass shoots –

a mushroom lies

on its side

LYNX, XXIV: June 2009

even after death

each one is different---

leaning headstones

tinywords 23 August 2006

long poetry reading

a trapped pigeon finds

the door

Joint winner Suruga-Baika 2004

heatwave—

after heavy watering

the plant falls over

Simply Haiku Vol 2 #5