midnight moon
hanging low in the sky
on the way home
a shadow leads me
into my fortieth year
Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta
真夜中の月
空に低くかかっている
帰宅途中に
影が私を導いていく
私の40年目に
Akita International Haiku Network, March 30, 2019
One Man's Maple Moon: Flesh Tanka by Sanford Goldstein
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*English Original*
the flesh clings
tighter still
as if to tell me
this world is smell,
is touch
*At the Hut of the Small Mind*, 1992
Sanford Goldstein
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