#Haiku Happenings #7: Fay Aoyagi’s Today’s Haiku features Mana Kisaragi!
Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)
森の方から短夜が来るんだよ 如月真菜
mori no hô kara mijikayo ga kurundayo
from a direction
of the wood
a short night will come
Mana Kisaragi
from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006
Fay’s Note: The original haiku is written in a colloquial style. ‘mijikayo’ (short night) is a summer kigo.
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