Friday, November 4, 2016

A Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

Don't get alarmed,
you corner spiders.
I won't touch your webs.

-- Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827),
who kept house casually
(Translated, from the Japanese, by Max Bickerton)

Source: The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology (1996),
edited by Faubion Bowers

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