薄氷の消えたる痕に夢の殻　　宮坂静生

usurai no kietaru ato ni yume no kara

            on the trace

            of disappearing thin ice

            a shell of a dream

                                                Shizuo Miyasaka

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