Summer Moon

a thousand gallons
shower from the eaves…
cherry blossoms © Issa

it touches the line
of my fishing pole –
this summer moon © Chiyo-Ni

Kashiwabara

1810
むさい家との給ふやうな雛哉
musai ya to no tamau yôna hiina kana

looking like she’s enduring
my crappy house…
the doll Issa

1804
を踏こたへたりみそさざい
yama kaze wo fumi kotaetari misosazai

fighting the mountain wind
on foot…
a wren Issa

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