powdered snow -
a crow’s eyes above
the no parking sign

sudden shower
four wasps investigate
a window gap

the rain
almost a friend
this funeral

almost lost
in the shimmer of water
several ducklings

an attic window sill
a wasp curls
into its own dust

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PUBLICATION CREDITS:
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'powdered snow'
Joint Winner, Haiku International Association, Japan,10th Anniv. Haiku Contest (1999)
The Mie Times, Japan (1999)

'sudden shower'
Commended byThe Japan Times (2002)

'the rain'
'Azami' haiku magazine, Osaka, Japan
No.28 September (1995)

'almost lost'
HI journal #42, Haiku International, Japan, January (2001)
This haiku was used and translated for an article read at the Baiko Women's College, Oct.1996 by Nobuyuki Yuasa (editor/translator of the Penguin Classics book 'Oku no Hosomichi' pub. in 1996, on Basho.)

Japanese romaji (romanised version) by Nobuyuki Yuasa:
mizu haete hikari ni kasumu kogamo kana

'an attic window sill'
Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan (Sept 2002)
Japanese newspaper with the world’s largest circulation, around ten million subscribers.

Alan Summers

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/five-english-language-haiku-with-japanese-publication-credits/