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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 3:02 AM

"are you okay?"
bringing the sky
from long ago

--Yuka Ohara

大丈夫かと昔の空を持ってくる 小原由佳

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 5:14 PM

eternally
chasing a butterfly
two chopsticks

--Tomiji Nakamura (1912-1980)

永遠に蝶追いかける 箸二本 中村冨二

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 8:16 PM

there is no emergency exit

in the box of autumn

--Asuka Yoneyama

非常口などない 秋の箱の中 米山明日歌

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 9:37 PM

showing each other
the backs of their cutting boards--
the lovers

--sagi hirohashi

まな板の裏を見せ合う恋人たち  ヒロハシサギ

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 10:11 PM

God will forgive me
walking a tightrope

--Sakujirō Sumi

神さまは許してくれる 綱わたり 墨作二郎

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 4:38 PM

a boy:
the darkness behind him
sits on the ground

--Sakujirō Sumi

少年の うしろの闇は地に坐る 墨作二郎

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 5:17 PM

wandering
little brothers:
noses dry

--Sakujirō Sumi

放浪のおとうとたちの 鼻乾く 墨作二郎

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 5:16 PM

I must search
the ruins for the demon
waiting for spring

--Sakujirō Sumi

春を待つ鬼を瓦礫に探さねば 墨作二郎

Note: it begins "waiting for spring" but is written so it could be read as modifying "demon" ("the demon waiting for spring"), so I moved it to preserve ambiguity.

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 2:30 AM

April Fools
pregnant
with the Silk Road

--Sakujirō Sumi

四月馬鹿 シルクロードを妊りぬ 墨作二郎

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 9:18 PM

the butterfly sinks
an I-novel
in the onion field

--Sakujirō Sumi

蝶沈む 葱畠には私小説 墨作二郎

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 10:32 PM

hide and seek
no one's coming
to find me

--Sakujirō Sumi

かくれんぼ 誰も探しに来てくれぬ 墨作二郎

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 11, 2026, 6:34 PM

bazaar --
the graffitied train
points north

--Sakujirō Sumi

ばざあるの らくがきの汽車北を指す 墨作二郎

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 9:15 PM

until the very night
of my death
I'll wash the rice

--Sakujirō Sumi

臨終の夜の夜まで米を研ぐ 墨作二郎

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 2:18 AM

folding cranes
executing them
one by one

--Sakujirō Sumi (1926-2016)

鶴を折るひとりひとりを処刑する 墨作二郎

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 7, 2026, 11:51 PM

it's my
coffin
I'll hammer the nails

--Haruzō Kōno (1902-1984)

おれの ひつぎは おれがくぎうつ 河野春三

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 6, 2026, 8:16 PM

picking just one person
rain on the playground

--Asayo Kuramoto

たったひとりを選ぶ 運動場は雨  倉本朝世

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@asurashaiku.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 3:38 PM

going to the Milky Way
to trim my bangs

--Asayo Kuramoto

天の川まで前髪を剪りにゆく 倉本朝世

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