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

Sunday, July 15, 2012

What Remains?: A Haibun

Alone in the attic. On the desk, her farewell note stained with coffee.

“What matters isn't the fact of dying or when you die. It's what you're doing at that precise moment -- I'm ready to be loved.”

winter drizzle...
my smoke rings
drifting

Notes from the Gean, 4:1, June 2012