in the hot day
what's buried there?
crow
~Issa
(translated by David G. Lanoue)
June 17- June 23 is the 25th week of 2024. This week, we enter the Solar Term of Summer Solstice (June 21 - July 06). “Plums Turn Yellow” (June 16 June 20) and “Self-Heal Withers” (June 21 - 26) are the micro-seasons for this week.
Basho, Issa, Buson, and Reichhold wrote the poems selected for this week.
You can read the full post and all the reader submissions for this week’s prompt on the blog.
seasonwords.com/2024/06/21/week-25-summer-solstice/