the neighbor
who seldom returns my greetings
chit-chats
with a stranger
while the dogs wag their tails
Atlas Poetica, 12, July 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...