Today at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: The haiku for today is written by a not so renown haiku poet, Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927).
Wintry gusts:
on the sardine still lingers
the ocean’s color. © Akutagawa Ryunosuke a.k.a. Gaki (Tr.: Ueda)
Yet his soulless eyes see through me —
he knows my secrets. © The Abject Muse
Ergo, the Ogre 
Tell it like it is