clouds

frog ages…observes

In an old pond

a frog ages

while leaves fall ~ Buson*

squatting

the frog observes

the clouds ~ Chiyo*

*The Classic Tradition of Haiku

Ed. Faubion Bowers

with each lightening flash,

each roll of thunder, rice and

the world grow richer

—

seen in a flash

of lightening, the riverbed

looks utterly dead*

wyoming sky

*cited in:

The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku Kobayashi Issa,

trans: Sam Hamill