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

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Striving to live

Sunflowers deepen into the soil. 

more war news ...
weeding the flower bed
I don't feel deserving
of this small plot of earth,
an Eden of sorts 

Will these sunflowers flourish in this place I've claimed as my “own?”

Ribbons, 18:3, Fall 2022