Haiku Happenings #1 (5/25/21): Fay Aoyagi’s Today’s Haiku features Saki Kouno!
Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)
起立礼着席青葉風過ぎた 神野紗季
kiritsu rei chakuseki aoba-kaze sugita
“stand up, bow, sit down”
green-leafed wind
passed
Saki Kouno
from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006
Fay’s Note: Before the class starts, school students bow to their teachers, while one of the students shouting “Stand up! Bow! Sit Down.”

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