Walter
Mathois, Vienna and Heike Gewi Germany / Yemen
hum
hum
from the plum tree
sweetness /wm
third grade girls cheer up a snail
/hg
the path starts to glisten /wm
moonlit wall—
her pregnant shadow eats
pickles too /hg
Notes:
About
Walter Mathois, Vienna
1954 born and
living in Vienna. Since my youth I write poems.
Because of my interest in the Japanese way of life, I
approached the Japanese short lyric. Since 2007, I
write haiku, tanka and Japanese chain poems with other
Haijin.
seventeen
syllables ... since hours—
the blank page
This is Walter
Mathois' first appearance in Sketchbook
