Variations On An Issa Haiku :
1. The pig in its sleep / Giggles and shakes and snortles / Poor, doomed animal
2. Worst winter in years / Cold shakuhachi music / Snug the pig inside
3. Wind, howl at the sty / In which the piglets snuggle / And giggle in sleep
4. Issa slips on ice / His cold pig chortles, hungry / Either she or me
5. The wintry cold wind’d / Slice the poet as his knife / Slits a giggling pig.
6. Sleep inside, snug sow / Time enough for your piglets / To face their killing