Marcus Liljedahl
Born 1972 in Malmö, Sweden
Marcus Liljedahl lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. His poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, Bottle Rockets, Noon, Bones, is/let, Under The Basho, Otoliths, and others. Marcus haiku was included in the anthologies Haiku 2015 and Haiku 2016, edited by Scott Metz and Lee Gurga. He was also one of 17 poets to appear in A New Resonance 10, edited by Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts. He is the author of the e-chapbook War Zone.
stained glass the grip of a stone reopens the scab
touching you the thin threads of a worn out dream
Bottle Rockets, issue 33
no word for paradise the language of Kalashnikovs
between borders the hunger of stitched mouths
floating down the river of hands a fleet of baby coffins
grey morning
a pair of seagulls
balance the sky
Modern Haiku, 45:2
pushing stones the tug of dreams and compulsion
enter Kali a dark hull drifting among footnotes
war zone an ancient god’s disfigured face
Frogpond, 38:2, Spring/summer, 2015
when you
dream
we return to
childhood
with
suitcases
in the east end of our dna a sun god will rise again
from time to time a blank slate flies to close to the sun
childhood letters open meadows without doors or windows
standing where the tribe becomes an ocean astray
in her tightly closed hand a room without dawns
between distance and closeness the language of birds
sleeping with false prophets I reach for a thread of sun gods