Especially if it is windy
Five days to Christmas
Sedgwick County, Kansas, no snow
Bashō no yōna, the author of this blog about all things haiku (and Basho), has a neighbor. One could call him Sora, Basho’s neighbor (in Fukagawa, and his traveling companion on the Oku no Hosomichi). That would be a stretch. We’ll just call him Bob. Bob mows his yard each week in the summer and fall. Come December, he loves to rake the leaves.
But that is such a pointless task, especially if its windy.
Raking leaves in late December
Bashō no yōna, Five days to Christmas, 2023
A Sisyphean task
— pointless
Bob rakes, but the wind wins.
Note. Sisyphus, the guy who rolled the boulder up the mountain each day only to see it drop.
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