蜘蛛の糸辿れば遠き日のランプ　　塩野谷　仁

kumo no ito tadoreba tôki hi no ranpu

            trailing a spider’s string

            a lump

            in the far-away day

                                                            Jin Shionoya

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