old man's morning piss —
don't panic
o magpie!

(See The Shiki Kukai May 2012 Free Format section.)

Look here! Summer
going to
visit

dandelion -
with evening breeze
it's getting cooler?

worn-out highway
in the middle of the day
salty holes

a returnee -
young magpie occupied
the heftiest branch

After a long winter we got a thundestorm! It washed away some wintry street dust...

Fifth night
after the Super Moon -
a thunderstorm!

wondering
whether to build a nest -
laughing magpie

a young crow
building it's first nest -
a virgin maple

those white clouds
going to build a nest,
too?

Early sun -
after chilly night
a happy crow

Arktikum

I visited Rovaniemi at 18th April; had some meetings over there. We got a snowy day, not so cold but the snow did not melt away. This one located outside Arktikum-house is something to do with the Arktikum-Center's art, I suppose.

         wintry vessel 
         radaring 
         where is the spring

warm spring day -
asking lawn mover
how it's managing

many good trees
for nesting -
a gull passing

where to swim -
a warm spring
breeze

more than ten thousand
wintry snowflakes-
now all gone!

a flowing river -
couple of ducks
going to nest

I visited Kuopio. My friend was buried there. Finnish text is something like this:

path to the grave -
a returning
sun?

Found it?
The secret
spring

Thawingism

Thawism?

Thawing means by Webster to go from a frozen to a liquid state

as:

An economy crisis thawed
into bankers' pockets?
St Patrick's Day.

It was yesterday 17th March. Is it enough for a kigo?

After a classic winter - with some snow and some freezing period the nature is thawing. Snows running away from us.

running
from the streets -
March thaw

The trains don't whistle anymore. I visited yesterday Helsinki for a short meeting. Got a pencil and wrote these, this one was #1:

         smell 
         from an old snow - 
         bird whistling

I did not like the word "smell". Scent? Stink? What aroma snow's got? Then #2:

           old snow 
           ebbing away - 
           a black bird!

The train was late. I checked the time and got slightly nervous. When arrived at Helsinki main railway station our train was 7 minutes late! When returning later back to Turku I wrote #3:

     this year
     melting snows seemingly 
     missing the train

When I was back at home again I was not at all worried how to make yourself clear in haiku-writing.

The black bird? - Perhaps just a rapid shadow?