Alone

The cawing of a crow -

I also am alone.

In unison with Hosai Ozaki's haiku:
* Hosai was a haiku poet who belonged to the same school of free haiku originated by Seisensui Ogiwara. Santoka and he knew of each other but never met. Hosai wrote many poems of his loneliness and the above poem is in unison with his famous haiku:

Coughing, even:
alone.

See the second haiga.

Hosai Ozaki's haiga