Talat Sait Halman

Loving You

If one loves you,
He strips to the moon,
And he loves
Until his corpse.

Old Door

Is what women want
To be blue
Or the night?
Men grow old and never find out.

Shriek

Each day,
Each night,
As soon as it sees me --
The sky is God's shriek.

Scarecrow Scared

You scare
The tiny birds away
In the orchards from sunrise to sunset.

But at night when the huge skies
Swoop down on you,
I feel you are scared.

First Crime

The mountain stabs
At dawn
The beauty
Of the night.

We call it headache-
The wingbeats
Of a dead bird
Pounding on our forehead