Nicholas Klacsanzky
Nicholas Klacsanzky is the editor of Haiku Commentary, an online journal for the analysis of haiku and related forms. He started to write haiku with the inspiration of his father, George Klacsanzky, who was the editor of the journal Haiku Zasshi Zo. Nicholas also volunteers as a haiku mentor online.
family barbecue
the homeless godfather
plays air guitar
Failed Haiku, September, 2016
border war
the man smokes a cigarette
found in a trash bin
Failed Haiku, September, 2016
family photo session
grandpa and dad fight
over killing a fly
Failed Haiku, September, 2016
the dishwasher
has its own
mantra meditation
Brass Bell, September, 2016
blackberry tea father's tale about a grizzly
Failed Haiku, August, 2016
National Geographic
smell of grandmother’s apartment
in its pages
Failed Haiku, August, 2016
heatwave
the wrinkled wrestler
stares into it
Failed Haiku, August, 2016
teacher
the shadow of her finger
pinned by a staple
Failed Haiku, July, 2016
shaved head
of the one-year-old girl
her moon-lit earrings
Failed Haiku, July, 2016
subway
I read a novel
from the stranger's hand
Failed Haiku, July, 2016
the turtle moves
further into the dusk . . .
life after college
Failed Haiku, May, 2016
heavy rain--
Seattle no longer
my Seattle
Failed Haiku, May, 2016
sufi music . . .
I set the washer
on another cycle
Failed Haiku #4 April, 2016
sunset in the slaughterhouse blood a color
Prune Juice, Issue 17, November, 2015