sam hamill

spring photo walk

as simple as that —

spring has finally arrived

with a pale blue sky ~Issa*

*cited: Trans: Sam Hamill, Kobayashi Issa: The Spring of My Life

after the autumn storm

lamplight from a doorway

at the village edge

~Issa*

cited:

The Spring of my Life

Sam Hamill

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