曇り日は曇りの高さ鳥帰る　　的場秀恭

kumoribi wa kumori no takasa tori kaeru

            cloudy day

            birds return north

            at the height of cloudiness

                                                Hideyasu Matoba

from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, April 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

Fay’s Note: ‘tori kaeru’ (birds return (north after spending the winter in Japan)) is a spring kigo.