Artwork by Takeji Asano
Tojinbo Cliffs
I leave
my shadow behind
Chen-ou Liu
ponytail
on her lee side
a crescent moon
Andrea Grillo
Photo by jijis
moonlight! shadow!
even en route to Yoshiwara
winter's withering
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue
best,
Don
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Yoshiwara ...
ReplyDeleteIssa on his way to the Pleasure District
in downtown Edo ?
sending you a 2007 sketch of three "gals" that
he might have know :
these three "shorties" in a long string of posts of
'solid' poems.
ah, Ed, you sussed out Master Issa (and floor scrubbing Don) ... the Pleasure District, indeed.
ReplyDeleteOf course, your sketch perfectly captures it all ...
Shivers down the back with Chen-ou Liu's shadow left behind.
ReplyDeleteMary ... so very true. When you click through and read the story of Tojinbo Cliffs, the full power of the haiku is revealed.
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