seasonal remnants – munsterkerk abbey, roermond – evening: four haiku

round the munsterkerk
the Christmas market’s dark, stands

and stalls shuttered up:
*
seasonal crowds withdrawn

in space of singular silence

no one hears nor follows
*
contemplating loss

in the temples of our heart

where gods die and live
*
lamps hung from abbey trees,

spotlit abbey walls, cast light

over us remnants.