木に戻したきほどの色柿落葉　　　片山由美子

ki ni modoshitaki hodo no iro kaki ochiba

I wish I could return it

to the tree

a color of the fallen persimmon leaf

                        Yumiko Katayama

from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, December 2014 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo