Diane Borsenik and John Stokes: Wednesday Haiku, #54

Detail of Fulling Cloth by Moonlight by Kōin Nagayama

in the kitchen
a spill of white
- full moon

Diane Borsenik

Mum Show, 1919, Photographer unknown

Orange mums
stiff even to a
warm autumn breeze

John Stokes

Kiku zu

perfectly straight
if we let it be...
chrysanthemum

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don

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Wednesday Haiku - Week 5: John Stokes

Hokusai: Brooklyn Museum

Wednesday Haiku, Week #5

on a gray
winter day
the morning glory
opens

John Stokes

morning-glory--
one inch from its tip
darkness

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

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