death poem
from a gnarled branch
the cardinal’s song
epitaffio
da un ramo nodoso
il canto del cardinale rosso
Gabriel Bates
Pittsburg, Kansas (U.S)
~o~
Selected and translated by Lucia Fontana
#8 A Haiku by Gabriel Bates, 2017 January 3th
the flowing sound of haiku by Lucia Fontana 茶の煙