In J. D. Salinger's story "Teddy," the title character recites two of these works to Nicholson, and then tells him that "they're not full of a lot of emotional stuff.
In J. D. Salinger's story "Teddy," the title character recites two of these works to Nicholson, and then tells him that "they're not full of a lot of emotional stuff." The narrator of one of them kills an ant, and then realizes his children were watching. Sixty of these works which were submitted to a writing contest appear in The Seashell Game. One of these works about a thatched hut appears at the beginning of a travelogue containing many of them, titled The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Another one of these works notes the silence before and after "a frog jumps into the pond." For 10 points, name these three-line, seventeen-syllable long poems mastered by the Japanese poet Bashō. 
In J. D. Salinger's story "Teddy," the title character recites two of these works to Nicholson, and then tells him that "they're not full of a lot of emotional stuff.
haiku [or hokku]