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