away from slaughter
                   the image reflects in a spring;
                   native love affair

satsuriku sarezu izumi ni utsusu domin no jōji

Kaneko Tohta, Selected Haiku, Part 1 (1937-1960) by the Kon Nichi Translation Group (http://goo.gl/NVwCus)
Red Moon Press, 2011; Trans., Gilbert et al