Archive for June, 2012
売れ残るブリキ金魚と梅雨の夜を 坊城俊樹
urenokoru buriki kingyo to tsuyu no yo o
with tin goldfish left unsold
my night
in the rainy season
Toshiki Bojo
Fay Aoyagi, translation
from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September 2011 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo
Fay’s Note: “tsuyu” (a literal translation: ‘plum rain’) is a rainy season in Japan which starts early to mid June.
Until these bones
become dust
and blanket the strife
that once again
the wild birds
find
a place
to land.
6.28.12
Scarecrow