coming home ...
the outspread arms
of a shrimp boat
tinywords, 14:2, 2014
Julie Warther
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
返家 ...
捕蝦船伸展開
的捕撈工具
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
返家 ...
捕虾船伸展开
的捕捞工具
Bio Sketch
Julie
Warther lives in Dover, Ohio with her husband and three children. She
serves as the Midwest Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of
America.
L1 establishes the thematic context of the poem while "outspread arms" in L2 provides a scent link (in Basho's sense of the phrase) to L1, making the image in Ls 2&3 emotionally effective.
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