foreclosure notice --
an ice cream truck
comes and goes
Frogpond, 36:3, Autumn 2013
Michael Dylan Welch
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
房屋止贖通知 --
流動冰淇淋車
來了又走了
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
房屋止赎通知 --
流动冰淇淋车
来了又走了
Bio Sketch
Michael
Dylan Welch is vice president of the Haiku Society of America, founder
of the Tanka Society of America (2000), and cofounder of Haiku North
America conference (1991) and the American Haiku Archives (1996). In
2010 he also started National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo),
which takes place every February, with an active Facebook page. His
personal website is www.graceguts.com, which features hundreds of
essays, reviews, reports, and other content, including examples of his
published poetry.
I think there's a deeper sadness to the contrast between the necessity of housing and the treat of ice cream. And perhaps, too, the foreclosure will come and go like the ice cream truck, and maybe things will be better down the road.
ReplyDeleteMichael Dylan Welch, Frogpond, 36:3, Autumn 2013, p. 77
Maybe someone would argue that there is a cause-and-effect reason why the ice cream truck comes and goes: it's because no one in the foreclosed/empty house comes out to buy ice cream).
ReplyDeleteI don't think so. It's mainly because the ice cream truck owner doesn't just come to one house -- he drives his ice cream truck through neighborhoods for potential buyers.