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

Saturday, November 22, 2014

I See, A Tanka Prose

Under the Dickinson bust an index card on which Remember, poetry ... is scribbled in red ink. Notebook in hand, back straight, mind alert, I start reading her last manuscript, Behind /Beyond the Attic Wall.

the year
dying in the night
I alone
lean out the window
into the dark

NeverEnding Story, October 18, 2014