22 May 2026

Dust Bathing

Leaf 397 – Looking Back

 

Tatsufumi Kobayashi - Passeri


When I was a child, we had an old, neglected strawberry patch beneath two very tall conifer trees in our back garden. It was mainly used by the sparrows in the summer, and I remember I always liked to see the little hollows which they created in the hard-baked earth.

 

 

Sparrows

dust bathing

in the old strawberry patch.

 

 

 

This poem was originally written and posted on Bluesky in response to a #dailyhaikuprompt: 'berry' & 'sparrow.'