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)

 

 

pounding rice cakes

pounding rice cakes

though there’s no child

to beg for them

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

Tree shade

tree shade–

an old man pounds rice cakes

alone

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

Pigeons and sparrows

pigeons and sparrows

come! come!

I’ve got rice cakes

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

 

The baby sparrow

the baby sparrow

chirps inside

the rice gourd

• haiku by Kobayashi Issa translated by David G. Lanoue, cartoon by Old Pond Comics

The last dance

butterfly dances

’round the arrow

in a dying deer

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa (translated by David G. Lanoue), illustrated by Old Pond Comics

tea smoke

tea smoke–

into the butterfly’s face

it blows

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, Translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Old Pond Comics

among the dewdrops

among the drewdrops

the butterfly’s mood

improves

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, Translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Old Pond Comics

chirping for the rice

chirping for the rice

on my cheek…

baby sparrow

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated in haiku-comic by Old Pond Comics

Rejection

baby sparrow–

even when peole come

opening his mouth

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Old Pond Comics.