水中花千年先は水となる　　　栗山麻衣

suichûka sennen saki wa mizu to naru

            in a thousand years

            an artificial ‘underwater’ flower

            becomes water

                                                Mai Kuriyama

from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), July 2017 Issue,  Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

Fay’s Note:  ‘suichûka’ (an artificial flower which ‘blooms’ when immersed in water) is a summer kigo