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

Friday, June 16, 2023

Chance Encounter Tanka

chance encounter
on my way to the bar --
twenty years
shrink to that sultry night
our dreams were entwined

German Translation 

Zufallsbegegnung
auf dem Weg zur Bar --
zwanzig Jahre
schrumpfen zu jener schwülen Nacht
unsere Träume waren verwoben