[Auctorum haicua] Sub divum gliscunt

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).