the size of this bathroom
with me in it
as well as the fly
Prune Juice, 7, January 2012
Kirsten Cliff
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
這樣大的浴室
裡面有我
和一隻蒼蠅
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
这样大的浴室
里面有我
和一只苍蝇
Bio Sketch
Kirsten Cliff is a New Zealand writer and poet whose work has been published in journals worldwide, and will soon appear in A New Resonance 8. She is currently working on her first collection, Patient Property, which explores her recent journey through leukaemia. Kirsten is editor of the haikai section of the New Zealand Poetry Society magazine, a fine line, and she blogs at Swimming in Lines of Haiku.
Kirsten's rhetorical use of the "size of this bathroom" (what size is it?) is humorously effective. If Issa were alive and could read English, he would have smiled at her.
ReplyDeleteone human being,
One fly,
In a large room
written by Issa; translated by Robert Hass
A well-crafted allusive haiku with an aesthetic focus on the "hai."
Thanks so much, Chen-ou! :-)
ReplyDelete:-)
ReplyDeleteMade me :)
ReplyDeleteWell done, Kirsten.
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