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Seventeen Haikus for Iceland

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1 Snowfield without path — the wind invents its own script across the silence.

2 Reykjavík breathes light. Smoke, laughter, and winter coats soften every street.

3 Midnight fireworks — the sky blooms in every hue. Even cold applauds.

4 Frozen waterfall pauses mid-sentence of stone, held by breathless air.

5 Black sand under frost — each wave forgets where to go, lost beneath pale skies.

6 Hot srings blur the cold. Steam drifts like a memory not quite forgiven.

7 A shark on my plate. The taste: stubborn-sea-buried — I chew through the past.

8 Geyser's sudden roar — the still world flinches, then sighes, letting go of heat.

9 Cracks in the glacier shine with some ancient blue light. Ice remembers us.

10 A horse in the snow blinks, then turns — as if it knows this moment won't last.

11 Selfoss: one quiet road, each lamp a gentle heartbeat in the drifting dusk.

12 Volcanic black stone dressed in moon-reflecting frost — fire disguised as calm.

13 A tune in the wind — is it Björk or just the land humming to itself?

14 The sun barely wakes, lingers at the edge of things — a ghost of a flame.

15 Snow refills my steps before I've moved on from them. Even time retreats.

16 Silence so complete, I almost hear the mountain shift beneath the snow.

17 I pause in the white — no, path, no sound, only breath. I am what remains.

— Lilith