[mosquito at my ear]

[mosquito at my ear]

BY KOBAYASHI ISSA
TRANSLATED BY ROBERT HASS
Mosquito at my ear—
does he think
      I’m deaf?
[mosquito at my ear] by Issa, from The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, edited and with an introduction by Robert Hass. Copyright 1994 by Robert Hass. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Source: The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho Buson and Issa (The Ecco Press, 1994)