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

Friday, September 15, 2017

Selected Haibun: Passion

for Billy Collins

half a haiku
the morning
already ancient

I wake from my nap screaming. In the dream, my half-naked poem is nailed to the cross, surrounded by a cheering crowd. A critic begins beating it with a hose, trying to torture a confession of its meaning from it. My poem cries out in anguish.

midnight moon
the only thing moving
my right hand

A Hundred Gourds, 2:2, March 2013