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 Credit to user anu-nand from Reddit for the photo.   I've been reading a lot of Kobayashi Issa and Kobayashi Issa insight recently.  I recommend  David G. Lanoue translation and insight of Kobayashi Issa's work as it has great readings, analysis, and examples withing the work.  I keep thinking of his book Write like Issa: A Haiku How-To where Lanoue writes:   Issa's concern for small, weak, alone, and oppressed creatures began with a genuine and sincere effort to imagine the world as experienced by them.  He then affirmed his connection with fellow beings acknowledging a shared reality in which he was not living on a higher plane looking down on them but, instead, was on their level, commiserating with them.   If you look through some of Kobayashi's varied work (I recommend https://haikuguy.com/issa/ ) you'll see the subject matter of Issa's haiku has animals like frogs and flies, mosquitos and crickets.  So I wanted to write about animals...