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Three Haiku

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summer arrives
even the fruitflies
I consider friends


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moth
caught in the lampshade–
free jazz solo


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midnight
still
cicada trill



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Some great ones here. I enjoyed ragtime step, and several others. My favorite was the Basho reference. My favorite translation rendered the last line in Basho as "Plop!", which actually works well with your onomatopoeia.

I read through all of the notes, and found a few that I missed, so I went back through again. There is one lingering detail that bugs me, so I wanted to run it by you:

from within
the Buddha's throat
swallow's sound

I got that it was intended to be a double meaning on the first read, and the attribution in the note seems to confirm that that was indeed your intention. I think that the apostrophe s in 'swallow's sound' somehow suppresses the second possible meaning for me. Would it retain your meaning and/or strengthen the double meaning to have read one of the following ways:

from within
the Buddha's throat
swallow sounds

or

from within
the Buddha's throat
swallows sound

The second would give the reader a second meaning of 'sound' to go with the second possible meaning of 'swallows'. Sound as a verb like 'sound off'. That was the only one that felt imperfect to me in the long set, which shows a great deal of refinement and care in these poems. Thanks for these.