みほとけの手の平は空（くう）鳥雲に　　鈴木貞雄

mihotoke no tenohira wa kû tori kumo ni

            deity’s palm

            is empty…

            birds into cloud

                                                Sadao Suzuki

from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, May 2016 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo

Fay’s Note:  ‘tori kumo ni iru’ (‘bird enters clouds’ (meaning a migrating bird return to north) is a spring kigo.