summer afternoon

a beach umbrella

no one comes to

--

Geraldine Clinton Little (1924-97): From Cor van den Heuvel (ed.): "The Haiku Anthology, 3rd," Norton, NY, USA.

Selector's Comments: I think many Japanese haijin can at once recall Seishi Yamaguchi's haiku:

madadaremo ikowazuumino yoshizujaya

thatched beach house

yet

no one comes to rest

--Seishi Yamaguchi (1901-94); (tr. by I. H.)

G. C. Little became interested in haiku on seeing a copy of Dr. Eric Amann's "Haiku," and wrote that haiku's appeal is "its world in a grain of sand" philosophy, the here and now of it. The two haiku cited above can be called "not yet" haiku -- which frequently merely depict the scene.