Stephen Addiss

Even in a single blade of grass

the cool breeze

finds a home

—ISSA

Short summer night—

flowing through reeds

bubbles from crabs

—BUSON

At the sound of the sea

the sunflowers open

their black eyes

—YŪJI

Summer rains—

secretly one evening

moon in the pines

—RYŌTA

Give me back my dream!

a crow has wakened me

to misty moonlight

—ONITSURA

In the harvest moonlight

standing nonchalantly—

the scarecrow

—ISSA

Without a companion,

abandoned in the fields

winter moon

—ROSEKI

Today is also ending—

at the bottom of the snowstorm

a gigantic sun

—ARŌ

Dearly, dearly

embracing the sun—

the fallen garden leaves

—RITŌ

Each plum blossom

brings a single blossom’s

warmth

—BASHŌ