Father’s words lingercan you put food on the table?
reading Poems to Eat
at the departure gate
Father doesn’t wave back
summer heat
first homecoming
Father sighsyour hair turns gray
reunion dinner
my niece giggles
at my Mandarin
reciting
my poem to Fatherit's raining, he murmurs
Sketchbook, 6:4, July/August 2011
Note: Poems to Eat is written by Takuboku Ishikawa, one of Japan's most loved poets
Butterfly Dream: The Void Haiku by Rachel Sutcliffe
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*English Original*
childless ...
I hug a teddy bear
into the void
*FemkuMag*, 1, June 2018
Rachel Sutcliffe
*Chinese Translation (Traditional)*
沒有孩子
我擁...