Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog
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A Room of My Own: Wooden Jesus Tanka
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slanted sunlight
reaches Wooden Jesus on the cross
I close my eyes
... yet nothing whatever emerges
in my mind or my heart
FYI: This tanka could be read as...
Boil Haiku
tea water
coming to a boil
our talk of war