Five Haikus
1.
I am nobody:
A red sinking autumn sun
Took my name away.
2.
I give permission
For this slow spring rain to soak
The violet beds.
3.
With a twitching nose
A dog reads a telegram
On a wet tree trunk.
4.
Burning autumn leaves,
I yearn to make the bonfire
Bigger and bigger.
5.
A sleepless spring night:
Yearning for what I never had
And for what never was.
.
Richard Wright, 1908-1960
“Five Haikus” from Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon
© 1959 Richard Wright
Photo of Richard Wright in Venice, 1950 (Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche)
