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

Sunday, November 12, 2023

Santa Ana Winds Tanka

Re-Homing in the Maple Land, XV

chilly night again ...
rent hike, food inflation
and salary freeze
bring Santa Ana winds
on the embers of my desire



AddedRe-Homing in the Maple Land, XVI

these gray rain clouds ...
I bounce from job to job
and later move
from basement suite to attic 
with a broken skylight 


AddedGame Show 2024, XXIX

my pitbull
chasing her Siamese cat ...
Trump on TV blasts
If you go after me
I'm coming after you!


FYI: The New Yorker, Nov 9: The Warnings About Trump in 2024 Are Getting Louder

This was the week, to mangle a phrase, when people finally freaked out about Donald Trump becoming President again. “Whichever individual poll you choose to believe or not,” Susan B. Glasser writes in her latest column from Washington, “the data point overwhelmingly to Biden sitting at near-historic lows in popularity and being essentially tied with Trump, a man who is running on an explicit platform of revenge, retribution, and Constitution-termination.

And CNN, Nov. 10: ‘That’s insane’: CNN panel on what Trump said he would do if re-elected

“CNN This Morning” panel discusses Donald Trump’s interview with Univision, in which the former president hinted he would weaponize the Department of Justice against political enemies if re-elected.