Quelques haïkus de Jack Kerouac

50 miles from N.Y.

   all alone in Nature,

The squirrel eating

A balloon caught
   in the tree – dusk

In Central Park zoo

Abbid abbayd ingrat
   - Lighthouse
On the Azores

A black bull

   and a white bird

Standing together on the shore

A big fat flake

   of snow

Falling all alone

A bird hanging

   on the wire
At dawn

A bird on

   the branch out there

- I waved

A bird pecking kernels
   on a grassy hillside
Just mowed

A bottle of wine,
   a bishop -
Everything is God

A bubble, a shadow -

   woop -

The lightning flash

A car is coming but

   the cat knows

It's not a snake

A current pimple
   In the mind’s
Old man

After a year and a half
   finally saw the rat
Big and fat

After supper
   on crossed paws,
The cat meditates

After the earthquake,
   A child crying
In the silence