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

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Old Flame and New Love Tanka

her husband mutters,
just a few rolls in the hay
with an old flame ...
her inner voice asks, it isn't
a hot embrace with a new love?



FYI: This is a Q and A tanka. For more examples, see To the Lighthouse: Question and Answer Tanka


Added:

why do you eat bread
with garlic rubbed on it?
the lingering smell
will give me dreams
that I've recently been fed


Added:

oh, to safe one life
is to save the whole world 
(this distance
in the rabbi's voice])
why this silence about bombings?