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Haiku (and image) by Yasuhiko Shirota

no body
no sound around
grace of buddha

through a bamboo curtain
families in the living room
at dinner time	light, heat, sweat-
	indian lilac in Hiroshima
	this summer too
out the door
and into a sea
of fragrant olive.	trumpet lilies-
	the funeral file goes ahead
	silent in rain
mother and child's
pilgrimage to the field
of autumn flowers	16th moon-
	no one in the alley
	on the pavement
in the alley
graffiti on the ground-
a fine autumn day	late in the fall-
	endless muffled chatter
	in the women's bath
nipping wind-
groaning of a lathe
from the factory	autumn at night-
	wind touches the surface
	of hot skin after a bath

Yasuhiko Shirota was born in Nagano City, Japan in 1941. He is a graduate of Waseda University and is a member of the "sakura no mi" Japanese Haiku Club and the MIFA International Haiku Circle.