a spider
weaving moonlight
through the web --
an unknown bird settles
on the foreclosure sign
Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta
蜘蛛が
月光を編んでいる
巣を通して --
名の知れない小鳥がとまっている
質流れの看板に
Akita International Haiku Network, March 30, 2019
A Room of My Own: Wooden Jesus Tanka
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slanted sunlight
reaches Wooden Jesus on the cross
I close my eyes
... yet nothing whatever emerges
in my mind or my heart
FYI: This tanka could be read as...