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

Thursday, July 4, 2024

Unnamed Grief Haiku

aftermath of floods
the trail of this
unnamed grief



FYI: This is could be read as a sequel to the following haiku:

flashfloodallboundariesdissolve

Haiku Quarterly, 1:1, 1989

Marian Olson

And BBC News, June 17, 2024How climate change worsens heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods


AddedAgainst the Drowning Noise of Other Words, LXXVI: "Gaza's safe zone"
written in response to Associated Press News, July 3: Life and death in Gaza’s ‘safe zone’ where food is scarce and Israel strikes without warning

mule-drawn wagons
wind past one mound of rubble
after another ...
across the bottom of my screen
scrolls the text: from here to nowhere


Added: Game Show, 2024, LIX
written in response to NBC News, July 3: Joe Biden says he’s ‘in this race to the end’ amid growing calls to drop out

end-of-the-race dream
the earth at its farthest point
from the sun


FYI: July 5 marks the earth’s aphelion - farthest point from the sun, a big astronomical milestone called aphelion. 

And The New Yorker, July 3: This Is What the Twenty-fifth Amendment Was Designed For
If Joe Biden doesn’t willingly resign, there’s another solution, which would allow Democrats to unite around a new incumbent.