曇り、夜雷雨

●８月月例ネット句会
https://suien.ne.jp/getsureikukai
青紫蘇を一枚二枚と重ね採る　　　　正子
夜の秋目覚めてなしぬ詩集の序　　正子
夕日差す坂を下り来て真菰買う　　正子

●夜、雷が鳴ったかと思うと急に雨。少し涼しくなった感じがする。

●句会の合間、copilotとやりとりしているうち、詩集『RETURN』の序の書き出しが書けた。英詩では、序が、決定的な価値観を示すものだとう言うから、どう書けばいいか方向が決まらなかった。copilot との数回のやり取りで、何を書けばいいか、はっきりしてきたと言える。書いては付け足し、書いては付け足しと言う状況だった。最後の一行、with quiet grace がないと、少しぶっきらぼうな印象になる。この言葉はこれまで使ったことがないので、大いに悩んだが、つけることに「優雅に」だが、しずかに　と言うくらいの意味。

Preface
I have written haiku for sixty years. Yet, prompted by a word in a letter I received from Professor Nishimura—a quiet word that led me back toward the source of my own words—these poems arose within three weeks, drawn from the memories of my life: from a journey to Germany with my late husband, Nobuyuki Takahashi, a haiku poet and professor of German literature, who had been invited to the Frankfurt Haiku Gathering, and whom I accompanied together with our two children; and from a later journey to England shared with my daughter.

In 1968, 1969, and 1970, Nobuyuki Takahashi and I published the weekly postcard series Haiku Spotlight, featuring haiku in English by English‑language haiku poets, as well as several Japanese haiku poets.

I first wrote these poems in Japanese as KIKAN, and then in English as RETURN.

May these poems accompany your quiet moments with quiet grace.

Augusut９, 2026