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

Thursday, April 17, 2025

Last Bite of Bread Haiku

Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXXV: "last bite of bread"

last bite of bread ...
with eyes fixed on Heaven
a girl starts singing 



FYI: NeverEnding Story's Special Feature: Selected Poems for Reflections on UN Statement: Gaza's Humanitarian Crisis at Its Worst Since War Began


The world that refused to lift your dead face from the ruins
was never interested in looking at it when it was alive

-- Mohammed Moussa


Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXXV: "armless boy"

pile after pile
of shattered concrete and rebar ...
silhouetted
against Gaza's red-tinted skies
an armless boy and his dog