Day of the Ducklings

                                                                                 jhhymas

The best surprise. One year, for the YTReading in the Teahouse, there was a family

of ducklings in the pond, as never before when we were there, 

 at the Japanese Friendship Garden!

They were quite adept in the water. 

Here the springtime has deepened

I go on and on,

go on and on.

   

The bank lined with willows dips slowly.

Buson

translation by Robert Hass

The Essential Haiku, Ecco, 1994, page 135.