May 5, 2015

A haiku by Yosa Buson


The evening breezes--
The water splashes against
A blue heron's shins.



-- Yosa Buson (1716-1783), from The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology, ed. Faubion Bowers, this haiku trans. Donald Keene, Dover Thrift Editions, 1996, p. 54.
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