awaiting the stars–
even a turtle cools
his behind
- –haiku by Kobayashi Issa (translated by David G. Lanoue), cartoon by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)
awaiting the stars–
even a turtle cools
his behind
the turtle and the moon
merge…
Sumida River
– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa (tr. David G. Lanoue), haiku-comic by Old Pond Comics
All the haiku poets who attended the Haiku Canada 2012 conference in Toronto this summer took pictures of the strange sculpture of a frog riding a turtle’s back located in the garden at the back of Glendon College where the haiku conference was taking place.