With Hurricane Katrina heading straight at New Orleans, the f/k/a gang send
our best wishes and hopes to all the affected people — especially to our haiku
friend Prof. David G. Lanoue, at Xavier University, and to Ernie. Neither David’s
hoping to find a few poems on rain storms and floods, but couldn’t get to the
Issa search engine. You can, however, click here for a page of typhoon/hurricane
haiku from a 1999 Shiki Kukai contest.
Luckily, I had a handful of almost-relevant haiku by
Kobayashi Issa stashed on my computer:
speaking truth
the rainy season’s crack
of thunder
lightning flash–
the astonished face
of the dog
lightning flash–
not giving a damn
the toad’s face
big rain
big moon
cicada in the pine
the day is devilishly
long!
long!
translated by David G. Lanoue
gridlock
on the freeway–
the skywriting drifts
August 28, 2005
no welcome mat for Katrina
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