Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Butterfly Dream: Silence Haiku by Alexander B. Joy

English Original

stillborn ...
feeling the weight
of silence

Alexander B. Joy


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

胎死腹中...
感受無言
之重


Chinese Translation (Simplified)

胎死腹中...
感受无言
之重


Bio Sketch

Alexander B. Joy is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

2 comments:

  1. L1 sets the context, thematic and emotive, for the poem while Ls 2&3 enhance the tone and mood.

    There are no words at a time like this that can remove the pain the narrator is feeling or truly bring the narrator comfort.

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