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

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Train-Top Ride

train-top ride
a migrant boy weighs
dawn's early light

Modern Haiku, 57:1, 2026


FYI: L3 alludes to the opening lines of "The Star-Spangled Banner:"

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?