old painting

[rayheinrich]

i think it's now more of a senryu as spring doesn't look into anything.
but if you're happy with it

If this is the one you are talking about:

old painting
spring looks into
the look of you

Then it's looking into 'you'.

If a frog can jump into a sound, surely spring can look into you.

One simple interpretation is that, from the writer's viewpoint,
they are facing each other. 'Spring' doesn't have to be sentient,
i.e. it's not that spring actually has eyes and is looking; it's the
writer who's expressing this notion.

But that isn't the interpretation I was thinking of. What I was
thinking was that any act of looking that truly has a strong effect
on you (a painting of spring in this case) not only produces an
image in your brain, but it suffuses you as well; that it becomes
alive for you, that you experience it as so much more than just
an image.

It's like looking standing at the gravestone of your mother and
talking to her. Rationally you know she doesn't hear you (assuming
for a moment that you don't believe in an afterlife of some sort),
but that you do it anyway and derive comfort in an act you did
so many times before when she was alive.

The image of spring can BE that intense (especially in the context
of a haiku).