Poet Profile

Vladislav Hristov

Interested in short writing forms, haiku published in Simply Haiku, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Sketchboo k- A Journal for Eastern and Western Forms, Whirligig – Multilingual Haiku Journal, Lynx, Notes from the Gean, etc.  A haiku collection book is to be published.

Awards and Other Honors: First prize winner of LiterNet & eRunsMagazine Flash Fiction Contest in Bulgaria (2007) and the Third Bulgarian National Haiku Contest (2010).

Books Published: Photos of Children, flash-fiction collection (Ars, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 2010).

warm rain . . .
the grape-pickers’ shoulders
shudder

I’m not alone
a lost dog 
shares my lunch

rice field . . .  
as many mosquitoes
as the grain

if only I’d picked them
last night
muddy chrysanthemums

in each sack
sea in a bottle –
summer train

among the Easter cakes
a sleeping mouse
the resurrection

Credits: "warm rain" - Simply Haiku 8:2 (2010); "rice field" - Simply Haiku 8:2 (2010); "in each sack" - Sketchbook – A Journal for Eastern and Western Forms 5:5 (2010); "I’m not alone" - Sketchbook – A Journal for Eastern and Western Forms 5:5 (2010); "if only I’d picked them" - Sketchbook – A Journal for Eastern and Western Forms 5:5 (2010); "among the Easter cakes" - Sketchbook – A Journal for Eastern and Western Forms 5:5 (2010).