Four Haiku - Poem

Literary Review, Summer, 2000 by Lane Dunlop

   Morning minnowing
   Fishing in the afternoon
   So the day was spent

   Three quarters buried
   In the blue sand of the sky
   Late afternoon moon

   Outside the window
   A walk went by on its way
   To the bay all day

   Two old mooring stakes
   Wait for their long vanished boat
   To tie up again

Lane Dunlop's translation of Kawabata Yasunari's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories is in its fourth printing with Farrar, Straus & Giroux