fireside knitting
the unfinished scarf
around my neck
Presence, 42, 2010
Beverley George
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
爐邊針織
在我脖子上
未完成的圍巾
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
炉边针织
在我脖子上
未完成的围巾
Bio Sketch
Beverley George is the past editor of Yellow Moon and the founder/editor of Eucalypt: a tanka journal
2006 - . In September 2009 she convened the 4th Haiku Pacific Rim
Conference in Terrigal, Australia. Beverley presented papers on haiku
in Australia at the 3rd Haiku Pacific Rim conference in Matsuyama, Japan
in 2007, and on Australian tanka at the 6th International Tanka
Festival, Tokyo 2009. She was the president of the Australian Haiku
Society 2006-2010.
In this seemingly cozy domestic scene portrayed in Beverley's haiku, the "unfinished" scarf might indicate the speaker's mood/state of mind.
ReplyDeleteA well-crafted "middle-of-the-story" haiku.