More Haiku as Query Letters

In an earlier post, I looked over several haiku by Bashō, the famed Japanese poet of the Edo era, and tried to imagine which author might have used which haiku for one of their query letters. Here are a few more:

In my new clothing

I feel so different, I must

look like someone else                             

     (The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain)

With dewdrops dripping,

I wish somehow I could wash

this perishing world                                 

     (The Road by Cormac McCarthy)

Taking a nap,

Feet planted

Against a cool wall.                               

      (Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain)

Bright red

the pitiless sun

autumn winds                                           

     (Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury)

Lightning

clenched in the hand:

torchlight in the dark                                   

     (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)

More Haiku as Query Letters