L'aura del Campo

# 20 sashimi tataki ktanka

tataki = haikuish with place
sashimi = haikuish but not a definite place
ktanka = like a tanka
*FF = foto / photo

I wouldn't mind if anyone reading these would comment which ones they like.

656 Fragrance of / linden — pollen floating / in a puddle [120a]
657 Caught in an / eddy — blossoms from the / berry bushes [120b]
658 Emperor speaks: who / dare cross my raging river — / banished forever! [120c]
659 I would send you / one last poem — not yet, / Death replied [120d]
660 Tired Moon / begs to sleep — composes an / ode to Dawn [120e]
661 Clouds promise / rain. Open the windows. Air / out the rooms. [120f]
662 Sun enters the / window — caresses one flower / with a finger [120g]

663 His ire melts / the snow — sweeps away All /in the rising flood [121a]
664 Snow white turns / orange with dust — we pray /for cleansing rain [121b]
665 Above the ridge / the flag stiffens — below / the midges flirt [121c]
666 Withered scarecrows / of corn stalks — geese feed / wary of the fox [121d]
667 Corn cut for / silage — geese in the stubble / gently grazing [121e]
668 Dorothy-the-/ bitch complaining: this isn't / as good as home! [121f]

669 Litter of western / culture — well trod paths / of the tourists [123a]
670 No shadows from / bending willows — they weep into / a rising flood [123b]
671 By moonlight / a robe fastened tight — at dawn / bound tighter [123c]
672 What quickens / the breast of the rose bush? Ah... / a sparrow song [123d]
673 At the river / they say goodbye: He to the source; / she bound for the sea [123e]
674 A sparrow sings / from the thorns; where is my rose; / when will she bloom. [123f]
675 The fox hides in / dappled shadows — No! / it's a fawn [123g]
676 His balls swing / with a rhythm — dear sir, / please turn around. [123h]

677 Leaves new / on the trees — an umbrella / blooms poppy red [127a]
678 Beyond the North / Hills — no sign of shrouded / mountains [127b]
679 The river rises / to flood — sidewalks / glisten [127c]
680 A girl walks past / yellow flowers — her blond / hair uncovered [127d]
681 What floral / gifts will May bring / to the hills? [127e]
682 The paths among / the pine empty today — grass / grows unnoticed. [127f]

683 Roses piled high / in the birthplace of my Faith — here / (tulips and) daffodils [128a]
684 Do not hurry / old river — the race to the seas / ends at the Sea [128b] (reword to make stronger)
685 The glass houses / ready for market — soon / radishes and turnips (to munch on) [128c]
686 This birthday — / how many times must I flash / fingers and toes [128d]
687 O Sparrow! Even / the pit-patter of rain cannot drown out / your come-hither song [128e] (too long)

688 From the mountain / top — city lights hidden / under smog [132a]
689 Twined around each / other — pale blossoms / at night [132b]
690 Withered fields / turn green — blanket / whitened bones [132c]
691 A flag waving / (at me) furiously — the river es- / caping its banks [132c]
692 Come up forty- / two stairs to see me sometime? / I have no visitors [132e]
693 These tomatoes — / they just don't seem / American [132f] (ironical)
694 Family scattered, / dead — a wounded / blue goose [132g]

695 An old couple / arguing (for what) — a drop of dew / in the sun [133a]
696 Even as my friend / blocks my way to tell a joke — / holding it in [133b]
697 Poke out my / eyes — so I can see this / world as you do [133c]
698 O Sarah! / Fly away as a dragon — / burn your broom [133d]
699 Last snow, first / snowdrops — nineteen years / since you died [133e]
700 A gathering of / my teachers — a chorus of / hoarse crows [133f]
701 Observe the may-/ flies and know — this May will / not come again [133g]

120,121,123 [4/29] 127,128 [4/30] 132,133 [5/1] Started reading Issa, 127b.

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