谷底の桜一樹がのどぼとけ 夏石番矢
tanizoko no sakura ichiju ga nodobotoke
bottom of a valley
a cherry tree is
its Adam’s apple
Ban’ya Natsuishi
from “Gendai Saijiki” (Modern Saijiki), edited by Tôta Kaneko, Momoko Kuroda and Ban’ya Natsuishi, Seisei Shuppan, Tokyo 1997
Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi) 
This Haiku is so beautiful and strange.
Is it like this?:
bottom of a valley–
a cherry tree
is its adam’s apple
(is that the pacing?) (does the ‘bottom’ of the valley and ‘adam’s apply’ – bottom of the throat, have a parallel?)
Regardless, amazing, thank you.
Ari; I like Ban’ya’s haiku, as you wrote, which is beautiful and strange. Yes. ‘valley bottom’ and ‘adam’s apple’ are pararell. Because ‘kire’ (cut) in this haiku is subtle, I did not want to use “–‘ (emdash) after the first line.