Lars Granström

Haiku in Swedish and English
Both versions by the author

 

när du vinkade
föll det lite nysnö
i ett gammalt skidspår

when you waved
new-fallen snow
in an old ski track

 

 

regnig kväll
blundar med ena ögat
och upptäcker månen

evening rain
I shut one eye
to see the moon

 

Lars Granström is a Swedish haijin and librarian, whose interests include dolphins and astronomical distances. He started writing haiku after reading Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums in the late 1970s. He is on the editorial staff of Fri Haiku, and has been published in many journals worldwide. His book Plötsligt slår blixten ned was published in 2005.