Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Wednesday Haiku, Week 11: M. S. Rooney


  


Wednesday Haiku, Week #11




plush salt whorls swallow
the fine ash of his letters -
dark bowl of new moon
M. S. Rooney





Originally published in convolvulus Number 15, Winter 1996)







in the red bowl
a whorling dragon!
buckwheat noodles
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue











best,
Don






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2 comments:

Charles Gramlich said...

I'll be reading some of my haiku at a local Barnes & NOble in the next couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to it. Too long since I've done any haiku

Issa's Untidy Hut said...

Best of luck with your reading, Charles ...