English Original:
my days
aren’t graphed in ideograms
but lined up
like the English alphabet –
Chinese in the promised land
Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta
我が日々は表意文字では示されぬ英文字のごと中国語なら
Akita International Haiku Network (Oct. 30, 2010)
A Room of My Own: Butterfly Kite Tanka
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, LVIII "Rafah's border wall"
the kids stare
beyond Rafah's border wall
the slow descent
of a butterfly kite
seve...
