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

Sunday, October 9, 2022

As Usual

a 3-haiku sequence about this (supposedly happy) Thanksgiving long weekend

a cacophony
of horns and tire screeches
Thanksgiving trip

quiet dinner
except the clicking
of chopsticks

leftovers
between us all that
remains


FYI: For more about understatement, see my "To the Lighthouse" post, A Rhetorical Device, Understatement