white chrysanthemum catching in one's eye nary a speck of dust chrysanthemums flowers blooming in the stones autumn coolness

hand and hand paring away eggplants -- cucumbers don't imitate me we are not two halves of a muskmelon ear of the pine tree mushroom on a strange tree with a leaf stuck to it the village so old there's not a single house without a persimmon tree autumn begins sea and sprouting rice fields one green failing health chewing dried seaweed my teeth grate on sand grabbing at straws the strength to bear our parting on this mountain tell me of its sorrow wild-yam digger after the flowers all there is left for my haiku wisteria beans The beginning of autumn; The sea and fields, All one same green. In the bitter radish that bites into me, I feel the autumn wind ill you turn toward me! I am lonely, too, this autumn evening. "ho tori-no #hiranu hana ari Aki no sora $nknown to birds and butterflies A flower blooms The autumn sky