Haikus
David Chikhladze
Winter
roar of radio
total variation
empty place
the gorge
ticket
compact bed
plum prickly
Queens
paradisaical corner
working out by pressure
locomotive
diapers
foam of soap
to prepare the reserve
tailwind
three-storied
Bashō
nautical skill
the skill of dispute
helpless
to stir
conceited
to attack for the purpose of robbery
to seize the aircraft
the oppressed state
vacuum
to sink
Issa
squadron
fly
aeronautics
blowing
day of ghosts
hummingbird
unloading
deed
admixture
the sign of weather
textile
swaying on the waves
Vodka
ringing
sound of heartbeat
tides
to gratify
harvesting
washing the floors
washing the dishes
watery
water wheel
your lordship
the howl
kilogram chimer
China Town
tea mixture
to anneal
the charcoal
the fish-male
psyche
psychological attack
to be thrown on to the food
to combine a copulation
temperature drop the lewdness
psalm a psycho
Amida Buddha
ammunition
god save!
gravity clumsiness
sluggishness
copper boiler
police a sonnet
blowing a sleep
probably ended
horsemeat the rider
nearer and nearer
adroit skillful
explosion of feeling
explosion of h-bomb
administration
right of vote
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
cognac hard rubber
fishing rod the whip
jumping of the pointer of the instrument
commune
intimately converse
large article in the newspaper
silly fellow
roe of fish
red leguminous pepper
Laurentius Beria
the cygnus-male
cocoanut
the cod fish
to edit
reddening
cover on the coffin
curtain
statement of witness
to show on the screen
large article in the newspaper
the large cup
Vagina
to be in the depressed
mood
not on the taste
cabinet
mercenary love
cupid
greediness
a container of tea
cup of life
a can
containing copper
red copper ore
mongrel
the badly brought up person
Poet and theatre artist David Chikhladze was born 1962 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He has lived in Brooklyn, New York, and today lives and works in Tbilisi. He has five poetry books: 8 Haiku, 1991; Wandering Droplets, 2002; The Book of Reality, 2004 (in Russian); D/D, 2007; December Nights, 2008; and a novel, Feminine/Feminine, 2008. His writings have been published in Georgia, Russia, Latvia, Norway, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, and the United States of America. In 1994 he founded Margo Korableva Performance Theatre and has preformed in cities across the USA including New York City, Philadelphia, and Austin, Texas.
