極月の三日月すこしはなれて星　　　杉山久子

kyokugetsu no mikazuki sukoshi hatarete hoshi

            three-day moon

            of the year’s last month

            a star at a little apart from it

                                                Hisako Sugiyama

from ‘Izumi’ (‘Spring’) haiku collection by Hisako Sugiyama, Furansu-do, Tokyo 2015