richard lopez & Márton Koppány

Four Haiku

#1

                                             we set the can of cat food on the porch
                                             midwinter, we wait
                                             the opossum's eager face




#2

                                             rotting jack o'lantern on the porch
                                             slowly, smiling
                                             into the years




#3

                                             dry winter, garden hose in hand 
                                                              among the potted plants
                                                              another step forward 
                                             a large pile of raccoon shit




#4

                                             third year of the plague
                                             early spring     queued at Safeway
                                             some masked some not in mask



 Márton Koppány: Insight - Hungarian Vispo No. 20

richard lopez is a lower-case poet/blogger & a citizen of the international republic of poetry. he makes his home in northern california with his wife & son & cats. you can read his poems, essays & rants at reallybadmovies.blogspot.com.

Márton Koppány is living in Budapest, Hungary. His visual responses to the four haiku by richard lopez were written between January 28 and February 22, 2022 and are part of an ongoing collaboration. Today, on March 16, he is inclined to call them, retrospectively, toylike premonitory symptoms. As always, "we" will see what happens next.

 
 

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