Friday, July 3, 2015

Tanabata Overlook

High above our daytime worlds we wait for darkness, so we can see The River of Heaven.
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Annual Tanabata Celebration, 2007.


I read a book--
somewhere within the book
an insect chirps

Tomiyasu Fusei

Modern Japanese Haiku;
an anthology, compiled, translated 
and with an introduction by
Makoto Ueda, 
University of Toronto Press, 1976, page 176




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