[the snow is melting]

By Kobayashi Issa
Translated By Robert Hass
The snow is melting
and the village is flooded
      with children.

Copyright Credit: [the snow is melting] 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)