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

Thursday, August 22, 2024

Blast Craters Haiku

Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, XCI: "Gaza's air"

smell of Gaza's air
the ravens blizzard
to blast craters


FYI: The noun, "blizzard," which originally means a severe snowstorm with "high winds and low visibility," is used to be an action verb. This practice of using a noun as a verb is called denominalization. For more examples, see To the Lighthouse: Denominalization