Today’s Haiku (June 7, 2011)

森のごときをんなが眠る夏電車　　平井照敏

mori no gotoki on’na ga nemuru natsu-densha

a woman looking like

a forest sleeps

summer train

                                                            Shobin Hirai

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

Fay’s Note:  Shobin Hirai  (1931- 2003 )