Look!
the dragonfly —
nothing but eyes!

Chisoku

Mounted rice paper and sumi ink. This was painted as an award for a Second prize winner in the recent Russian haiku contest in the All Japan community. The Japanese haiku was handwritten with a calligraphy brush on the painting, and the Russian text (also handwritten) was added digitally. Russian translation by Michael Gertelman; English translation by Origa.