HAIKU NARRATIVE 

A self-negotiated project based on six, unrelated haiku poems, all written by Yosa Buson. I wanted to create a narrative using a set of haiku poems that somehow linked together, as if they were originally written as a sequence. The narrative takes us through the day from dawn to dusk.

  1. Dawn—/fish the cormorants haven’t caught,/swimming in the shallows.

  2. Early summer rain—/houses facing the river,/two of them.

  3. Old well,/a fish leaps—/dark sound.

  4. Not quite dark yet/and the stars shining/above the withered fields.

  5. A bat flits/in moonlight/above the plum blossoms.

  6. Calligraphy of geese/against the sky—/the moon seals it.