The article is devoted to the study of the image of an old woman in the poetry of D. Kharms. The microfield “old lady” within the lexical-semantic field “woman” became the object of the research. Thematic groups of lexemes selected within the microfield allowed to draw conclusions about the specificity of old lady representation in the poems. The research resulted in the conclusion about the old lady as a representative of other worlds, associated with death and demonic forces.