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