A Colorful Tanka

(For those of you that don't know, a tanka is a traditional Japanese poem consisting of thirty-one syllables.)

青車

緑の埃

茶色杉

鏡に赤目

来た春の色

Aokuruma	Blue car
Midori no hokori	Green dust
Chairo sugi	Brown sugi*
Kagami ni akame	In the mirror, red eyes
Kita haru no iro	Spring's colors have arrived

(*Sugi - also known as the "Japanese cedar", though it is related to the redwood.  One of nature's more insidious forms of chemical warfare...)