5 Haiku Poems
I breathe in your breath,
fresh from your body’s country,
of lungs grown by mine.
The poem ducks away
as I try to write it down –
poor unskinned creature.
Daisy head plucked
by small hands; lost on the way,
mourned like an old friend.
Nothing holds me here
but this fragile string of breaths,
nature’s providence.
Reach down the windpipe,
hook your knotted yesterselves.
Their sails will blind worlds.
Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig is a freelance translator, editor, and author. Her poetry publications include the pamphlet 'kinscapes' and the anthology 'The Joy of Living', which she edited to support The Maggie’s Centres. Her work has appeared in Poetry Scotland, Dust Poetry, The Candyman's Trumpet, Iamb, Dreich, and Nine Pens, among others. She can be found on Patreon (patreon.com/whatisaletter), Bluesky (@whatisaletter.bsky.social), and Instagram (@schicketanz_books). MIMS lives in Dunfermline, Scotland, with her family.
Dr Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig
Copyeditor, translator, poet & author
Copyeditor Publications of the English Goethe Society
Coeditor of Letters: A Handbook (De Gruyter, 2020)
Latest literary translation: Zauberhafte Aussichten [Living Alone] by Stella Benson (Rowohlt, 2024)
Debut poetry pamphlet: kinscapes (Dreich, 2022)
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