[goes out comes back]
Translated By Robert Hass
Goes out,
comes back—
the love life of a cat.
Copyright Credit: [goes out comes back] 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)