裸木となる太陽と話すため　　高野ムツオ

hadakagi to naru taiyô to hanasu tame

            I become a bare tree

            to talk

            to the sun

                                                Mutsuo Takano

from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2017 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

Fay’s Note:   Since the Japanese original does not have a subject, the poet might have meant ‘a tree becomes a tree.’   Then, the first line should be ‘it becomes a bare tree.’