Watashi no Otto has been listening to me spout off poetry for years and now it’s his turn. His first attempt got him a spot in Haiku Dialogue, edited by Carole McMuRay. It is a haiku prompted by an image or an ‘ekphrastic’ haiku. In this case it was a photograph of a horse’s eye close-up.

Here is the Haiku :

the view
is clear now
contact lens
Hideki Obayashi

'Otto' means husband in Nihongo-- Japanese.