a black moth
flutters around the desk lamp
trying to find
a way through the Tiffany shade . . .
I yearn for the flames of love
A Hundred Gourds, 1:2, March 2012
Butterfly Dream: Summer Nights Haiku by Masaoka Shiki
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*English Original*
how much life
is left to me --
brief, these summer nights
*Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan*, 2018
Masaoka Shiki
*Chinese...