[mosquito at my ear]

By Kobayashi Issa
Translated By Robert Hass
Mosquito at my ear—
does he think
      I’m deaf?

Copyright Credit: [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)