Just for a moment

This is Ed Grossmith, on the day I first met him during the YT Ginko at Hakone Gardens.

I didn't know then that he was a GREAT photographer whose photos were featured 

on the cover of one of out most beautiful anthologies ever.

Nor did I know how much I would like this haiku,

which is one of my all-time favorites.   jhh

just for a moment

I really believed in you

flickering candle

   

Ed Grossmith

   

Scattered Acorns; Yuki Teikei Member's Anthology 2014,

edited by June Hopper Hymas, page 18.

Tonight's bonus, two translations of a Buson haiku:

                Shoku no hi o shoku ni utsusu ya haro no yu

Lighting one candle 

with another candle-- 

spring evening

Yosa Buson on Poemhunter.com

The light of a candle

is transferred to another candle--

spring twilight

  

Buson; translated by Edith Schiffert & Yuki Sawa