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Here I am sittin’ (haiku by James Emanuel)

Here I am   sittin’

on this stump.  There’s a rabbit!

I bet he won’t jump.

• Jazz Haiku by James Emanuel, cartoon illustration by Old Pond Comics.

Rice blossoms

rice blossoms–

a large man

lost in them

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