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Will you start a fire?
I'll show you something nice:
a giant snowball
~Bashō

And that reminded me of this:

The Pasture
By Robert Frost

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.

I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.

I'm re-reading Bashō and His Interpreters:  Selected Hokku with Commentary by Makoto Ueda, ©1992, and I recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in Asian poetry.

It's very accessible.  Each page has a haiku (or one of its myriad variations) followed by the original Japanese, a paragraph explaining the background of the poem, and five or six bite-sized critical analysis by experts.

The analysis is the fun part.  The "experts" quite often have wildly differing interpretations, which shows you how subjective literature is— but also gives you different angles of looking at the same words, yourself.