in the shade
of a weeping willow
a war veteran
takes on shifting shadows
in hand-to-hand combat
Atlas Poetica, 19, 2014
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...