{"id":3936,"date":"2005-07-02T11:54:38","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/07\/02\/issa-knows-mosquitoes\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:36","slug":"issa-knows-mosquitoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/07\/02\/issa-knows-mosquitoes\/","title":{"rendered":"issa knows mosquitoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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hut’s mosquitoes
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the pesky mosquito’s
birthplace…
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mosquito swarm–
even you
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thrown together–
thin mosquitoes, thin fleas
thin children<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><\/FONT><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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my home
where I even exhale
mosquitoes

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a place
short on mosquito swarms…
sickle moon
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wringing hands
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let me have just a corner!
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to the lullaby
of mosquitoes
she sleeps
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even the horses
sleep in light green
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today too
mosquito larvae and me
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living long
the flies, fleas, mosquitoes…
a poor village
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leisure class–
“Mosquitoes have come!”
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even the mosquito hates
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–  all haiku by Kobayashi <\/EM><\/FONT>ISSA<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>, <\/FONT>translated by <\/FONT><\/EM>David G. Lanoue<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
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 – find more Issa haiku for ONE<\/EM> & Live 8 here<\/A> –<\/FONT><\/P><\/FONT><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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