Mike Fainzilber

a dram for me

and a dram for thee

thirsty grave

—Mike Fainzilber

deep end

finally forgetting you

every single day

—Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber

zazen

an owl

in the rain

Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber

wind in her hair

still singing

the sixties

Mike Fainzilber

displacing

the blues

summer wind

Mike Fainzilber

wind and sunset

one last roll

of the kite surfer

Mike Fainzilber

hamsin*

the desert

ironing the sea

Mike Fainzilber

*A ‘hamsin’ (literally 50 in Arabic) is an easterly desert wind that brings extreme heat and dryness, and also flattens the waves on Israel’s Mediterranean coast. There are said to be ~50 such days per year, hence the name. In Bedouin tribal law, hamsin conditions are considered an extenuating circumstance in homicide cases…

Mike Fainzilber

adjusting a picture frame

the world

in place

Mike Fainzilber

memorial service

replacing the priest

a jazz quartet

Mike Fainzilber

butterflies

many lives later

migration’s end

Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber

staring at the moon

trying to find

your reflection

Mike Fainzilber

love thy enemy

the one

I married

Mike Fainzilber

after the parting

sunrise and sunset

in grayscale

Mike Fainzilber

cloth on cloth

so near

too far…

Mike Fainzilber

what a view, you say

I see

only you

Mike Fainzilber

a haiku dream

when the soul

meets itself

Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber

moving slowly

up the mountain

blind musician

autumn dawn

Mike Fainzilber

fog in the phone booth

the only caller

dialing the wind

Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber

a pool

of candlelight

warming the tea


Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber

an egret’s call

her lost son’s name

above the silent trees

Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber

dancing on a crooked floor

the memory

of crutches


Mike Fainzilber

*

against all odds

blades of grass

through the pavement

Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber

a cloud

on a string

kite dreaming

Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber

at the end of the earth

where the sun goes to die

a souvenir stand…

Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber

above the thunder

the tree

of five thousand years

Mike Fainzilber

 

*

 

after the rains

a haunting silence

nothing left to say


Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber

desert night

only the stars

cannot hide

Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber

bread crumbs

and sparrows

reasons to be happy

Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber

captured

in a bottle

the sunshine

on the vines

Mike Fainzilber

*

 

the wind

and the butterfly

gliding on each other


Mike Fainzilber