ice-locked lake
countless footprints
to nowhere
Author: Marta Chocilowska
Marta Chocilowska lives in Warsaw, Poland. She is a fan of cats, music, poetry and cycling. In 2013 she joined the Warsaw Haiku School-Kuzu. Her haiku have appeared in The Asahi Shimbun (Asahi Haikuist Network), Faces and Places Haiku Anthology, A Hundred Gourds, Brass Bell, Cattails, Chrysanthemum, Haiku Anthology of the 2nd International Haiku Conference, Cracow, 2015, IRIS International Haiku Magazine, KUZU, Whirligig, Wild Plum and WHA Haiga Contest.
shoe box
my cat takes on
its shape
long illness
seeded too late
sweet peas
a hot date
the gentle creaking
of moored boats
(Originally published in Frogpond vol. 43:3 (fall) 2020).