Today’s Haiku (May 19, 2011)

此の姿見に一滴の海を走らす　　　加藤郁乎

kono sugatami ni itteki no umi o hashirasu

I make

a drop of the sea run

on this full-length mirror

                                    Ikuya Kato

from “Gendai no Haiku” (Modern Haiku), edited by Shobin Hirai, Kodansha, Tokyo, 1996

Fay’s Note:  Ikuya Kato  (1929-     )   This haiku has no kigo and is not 5-7-5 in Japanese.