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

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Gig Worker's Life Haiku

the stop, go, stop
of a gig worker's life ...
rush hour traffic


AddedRe-Homing in the Maple Land, XXX

after work
we're cocooned in a place
called Sweet Home:
all these hidden layers
of silence upon silence


AddedRe-Homing in the Maple Land, XXXI
written in response to Justin Trudeau's Monday night appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Canada is the best country in the world... beautiful wilderness and scenery, but “Canada is about the PEOPLE.”

no more immigrants
this invisible asterisk 
beside my name


Added: reading between the lives and writing between the lines, LXXXVII

it comes in waves
almost physical, he sobs
sinking into his chair ...
is it a mistake to join
this group that drowns me in pain?