issa knows mosquitoes
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hut’s mosquitoes
this damned year, too
feasting
the pesky mosquito’s
birthplace…
temple flower
mosquito swarm–
even you
have a narrow home
thrown together–
thin mosquitoes, thin fleas
thin children
my home
where I even exhale
mosquitoes
a place
short on mosquito swarms…
sickle moon
wringing hands
in the mosquito netting…
let me have just a corner!
to the lullaby
of mosquitoes
she sleeps
even the horses
sleep in light green
mosquito nets!
today too
mosquito larvae and me
at sunset
living long
the flies, fleas, mosquitoes…
a poor village
leisure class–
“Mosquitoes have come!”
they say
even the mosquito hates
thin legs…
quickly moving on
- all haiku by Kobayashi ISSA, translated by David G. Lanoue
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