初秋や草をくぐれる水の音　　鷲谷七菜子

hatsuaki ya kusa o kugureru mizu no oto

beginning of autumn—

water sound passing

under grass

                                                        Nanako Washitani

from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006