Monday, February 12, 2007

Stitching

The Barley Field

Up the barley rows,
stitching, stitching them together,
a butterfly goes.

--Sora (1648-1710) (trans. Harold G. Henderson)


Pretty, no? I'm sure he was practicing for the OR.


Harold G. Henderson, An Introduction to Haiku. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1958.