the 15th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences
their coarse voices
Wow! Chinaman s-peak-s En-gli-sh
amplified
by a room of silence
... my Bruce Lee kick in the air
Atlas Poetica, 15, 2013
Butterfly Dream: Outfield Haiku by Cor van den Heuvel
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*English Original*
the ball sky-high
as the crack of the bat
reaches the outfield
*Baseball Haiku*, 2007
Cor van den Heuvel
*Chinese Translation (Tradi...