More haiku by Yosa Buson (1716-1783):
The bush warbler calls
opening its small
mouth all the way*
Someone is picking his way
across the shallows in spring
stirring up mud clouds*
Through the flowering quinces
the crimson face of a pheasant
like another flower
(From Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson, Translated by W.S. Merwin and Takako Lento. Copyright © 2013 by W.S. Merwin and Takako U. Lento. Used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC. All rights reserved. Photo of a Japanese bush warbler by James Brennan)
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