No more empty ground (a haiku sequence)
furrows
already sown in them
the bird’s sounds
planting beans
a small child speaks
about the cosmos
lettuce seedlings
no more on a bare ground
his shadow
watering flowers
all the new shoots
of her stories
—
Samo Kreutz lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Besides poetry (which he has been writing since he was eight years old), he writes novels, short stories, and haiku. He is the author of ten books in Slovene and three in English (they are haiku books, titled The Stars for Tonight, A Time Different from Ours, No Bigger Than a Crumb, all published by Cyberwit.net from India). His recent work has appeared on international websites (and journals), such as The Heron’s Nest, The Big Windows Review, Ink Sweat & Tears: The poetry and prose webzine, Green Ink Poetry, First Literary Review- East, Ariel Chart, and others.