“Fiftieth birthday:
From now on,
It’s all clear profit,
Every sky.”
–Issa (from “The Essential Haiku,” translated by Robert Hass)
(And note, my 50th is well past. But others’ — they’re always arriving.)
"You want it to be one way. But it's the other way."
I’ll be there in a few months, and I love this haiku. Thanks!
Congratulations in advance!
Hass’s translations are amazing. That book — “The Essential Haiku” — is one of my favorites.