for Basho
alone by the pond
frog song
lost in frog song
入賞句 (Prize-Winning Haiku), Fifth Japan-Russia Haiku Contest, 2016 ; Akita -- The Land of Poetry, 8, October 2016
Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta, Founder of Akita
池のそばで独り
蛙の歌が蛙の歌に消える
A Room of My Own: New Slogan and Old Face Tanka
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the walls plastered
with this new slogan
*care over cuts ...*
the same old face blurs
in the gathering dusk
