夢の淵春の虹生む象の川　　　宇陀草子

yume no fuchi haru no niji umu zô no kawa

            abyss of a dream

            the elephant river gives birth

            to a spring rainbow

                                                            Soshi Uda

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