若楓おほぞら死者にひらきけり 奥坂まや
wakakaede ôzora shisha ni hiraki keri
young maple leaves
the blue sky opens
to the dead
Maya Okuzaka
from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, June 2012 Issue, Kadokawa Gakugei Shuppan, Tokyo
Fay’s note: This haiku originally appeared in “Haha No Kuni”(“Country of My Deceased Mother”), a haiku collection of the poet, published in 2011
