crabs jamming themselves

crabs jamming themselves
in the cattails…
autumn night

haiku by Kobayashi Issa (translated by David G. Lanoue)

Photo and origami crab by Jessica Tremblay

All I pick up / At the ebb-tide / Is alive! (haiku by Chiyo)

 

All I pick up

At the ebb-tide

Is alive!

 

— haiku by Chiyo,

from Haiku by R.H. Blyth (Hokuseido Press, 1984, paperback 2nd print, p. 796) ;

 

illustrated by Old Pond Comics

 

Crab

origami and photo (JessicaTremblay)