alone
on this sultry night
face to face
with an old TV
flickering on and off
Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta
一人
この蒸し暑い夜に
面と向かっている
古いテレビに
チカチカする画面
Akita International Haiku Network, March 30, 2019
One Man's Maple Moon: Flesh Tanka by Sanford Goldstein
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*English Original*
the flesh clings
tighter still
as if to tell me
this world is smell,
is touch
*At the Hut of the Small Mind*, 1992
Sanford Goldstein
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