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

Saturday, March 29, 2025

A Season of Regret

snowed in
for three straight days
again, I check
the machine for the sound
of your voice

I dream 
that winter dream again ...
sadder than then
as I look out the window
at the sky, endless gray 



FYI: This set could be read as a prequel to my tanka below:

It's me
I just wanted to hear
from you ...
fifteen seconds of soft voice
after ten years of silence

Gusts, 35, Spring/Summer 2022


Added: Trump Empire, Inc., XV

Day and Night, Forever?
for Mark Twain who claimed, "Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."

step after step
one by one to the exit
DOGE cuts

red district town hall 
a crowd-fest 
of boos and jeers 

distant sirens
free-ranging dogs pee
on the Trump Mural

Liberation Day!
the news on mute, I change
my baby's diaper


FYI: DOGE stands for the Department of Government Efficiency. And the Convicted Felon Donald Trump is set to roll out his massive tariff plan on April 2, which he has touted as "Liberation Day in America."


Added:

a dollhouse
in the rain-streaked window
of a thrift store
a girl holds her mother's hand
tight ... and tighter 


Added:

frost flowers
on my son's study room window
paper planes gather dust