春愁の尻尾の少し伸びて来し　　山本則男

sunshû no shippo no sukoshi nobitekishi

            spring melancholy

            my tail has grown

            a little bit

                                                            Norio Yamamoto

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