Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Hertory of Love: A Haiku Sequence

rocks
under the melting snow
last love

moonlight
through spring rain clouds
her eyes

her hair
spilling over us
summer stream

harvest moon
floating in our glasses
her mouth on mine

her ashes
vanishing into the sky
first snowflakes


November/December 2010 issue of Sketchbook

Note: "Hertory" is a new word coined in the late 1960s, referring to history (re-stated as "his story") written from a feminist perspective.