A Tanka about Film Viewing

English Original:

my world
is coiled on rolls of film
and projected nightly
on the screen of my mind –
when is the reel world not real?

Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta

我が世界心のフィルム写し撮り夜ごとに映り実在すなり

Akita International Haiku Network (Oct. 30, 2010)