秋の夜のこぼれしままの水の玉　　宇佐美魚目

aki no yo no koboreshi mama no mizu no tama

            autumn night

            a water dew stays

            where it dropped

                                                Gyomoku Usami

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