To help digest

to help digest

the rice cakes, grafting

the tree

–haiku by Kobayashi Issa (translated by David G. Lanoue), cartoon by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)

 

 

Move aside

Move aside

butterflies and birds!

lotuses are blooming

— Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, Tr. David G. Lanoue, ill. Old Pond Comics