This modern haiku must be a wintertime haiku, I think, however, even surrounded by this gradually warming air, I heard a clear “winter voice” when I listened to a suikinkutsu (水琴窟).  This Japanese garden feature is a buried earthen jar that sounds when water drips.

O suikinkutsu /

I hear the stealthy sound of/

Winter/

Calligraphy and translation by Chio

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この句は冬の句でしょうけれど、大気が暖かくなってきた今も水琴窟を聴くと、澄んだ冬の声に聞こえます。

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