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The Snow is Melting by  Kobayashi Issa

The snow is melting
and the village is flooded
        with children.

	 Kobayashi Issa
	translated by Robert Hass 

Calligraphy by Yukki Yaura

Reprinted by permission of Bloodaxe Books from The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson and Issa, tr. Robert Hass (Bloodaxe Books, 2013)

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