Imaginem excepit Michael Baldi
Sub divum gliscunt
Excelsae flaminibus
Nubes caducis
- Flaminius -
Clouds form grandly
High in the sky, but owe it
All to passing winds(1)
Alte nel cielo
Grandeggian le nubi --
Grazie a venti caduchi
- Kobayashi Issa -
(1): Anglice uertit Sam Hamill (cfr. K. Issa, "The Spring of my Life and Selected Haiku", Shambala 1997).