Tanka challenge 11/20/09
Nov. 20th, 2009 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkey
Winds buffet the inky clouds
Even as the sun stabs through
Curtains of raindrops.
Venture out at your peril:
On such days, foxes marry.*
*A "Foxes' wedding (kitsune no yomeiri)" is a Japanese term for a sun shower. Foxes have a reputation in Japanese folklore as tricksters. The photo is a still from Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams," in which a small boy happens upon the wedding procession of the secretive foxes.
http://www.genjipress.com/img/dvd/2003/B00007G1ZC-027.jpg )
