kigo for early winter

They are all around my home right now, dancing up and down like snow.

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tiny life dances
its final dance

Gabi Greve

 

The Five Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words  lists them as "bedbugs", but that is a different insect.

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snow insects
float
in soft sunlight

Etsuko Yanagibori
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/message/20669

 watamushi no tsuki kuru asa no nobe-okuri

a watamushi follows us
a solemn funeral procession

Etsuko Yanagibori
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/message/28997

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cotten insects -
this gate where a corpse
is passing through

Hakyo Ishida ÀÐÅÄÇȶ¿

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yukimushi no yurayura kata o koe ni keri

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Look at some photos here:
http://www.geocities.jp/tokihikok/masaji/haiku/oriori/2005/fuyu/watamushi.html

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