Sergei Braun

        Dear Watson,
        ... or should I call you --
        Moriarty

        door squeaks
        floor boards crack
        he's back

        Obituary:
        ... tried to jump
        from moving time ...

        face blacklit
        coals in the fireplace
        turn to ashes

        St. George and the dragon ...
        Alas!
        Both extinct.

        padded cell
        distant voices again
        Can you boogie?

        I am immortal.
        I walk this road forever
        and my bare feet ache.

        feeling lonely
        yet content --
        ate my last mate

        joined
        by the leaden streak
        of bullet

        the glass
        is full
        -- jump in!

These haiku are
Copyright © 2001
by Sergei Braun.

E-Mail: sergei@vms.huji.ac.il

About the Poet -- Sergei Braun lives in a small
village in the hills West of Jerusalem, Israel. He writes
haiku and scifaiku in English and Yiddish since 1997 - a
symptom of mid-life crisis. Some of his poems appeared in
the "Star Leaper Magazine".