Book of the Week: Mlijecnom Stazom (Down the Milky Way): A Book of Haiku by Dejan Pavlinović in Croatian and English

In Haikupedia, we learn that Dejan Pavlinović (born January 30, 1968) is a Croatian haiku poet and a graduate in English and German languages and literature from the Zadar Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He is employed as a gymnasium teacher in Pula, a part-time tour guide, and a musician in the rock band The Chweger.

In the Foreword, Jane Reichhold writes “you can also detect the other specialness of Dejan’s haiku. He has published his haiku far and wide and kept a record on each one. I find that truly amazing – the way he takes care with and of his haiku. His entries of where each haiku was first published becomes a log of his writing life.”

iz voćnjaka …
slatki mirisi i dalje
u njenoj kosi

from the orchard. . .
sweet fragrances still
in her hair

raspori
svijet na dva
vodena brazda

unzipping
the world in two
a ship’s wake

prokrči put
kroz sparnu noć
komarac

cutting its way
through a sultry night
a mosquito

utopi se
u vlastitom odrazu
snjegović

drowning
in his own reflection
a snowman

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