Friday, August 5, 2016

Butterfly Dream: Bare Hills Haiku by Jo McInerney

English Original

bare hills
the horizon looped
between post and wire

Equal First Place, 2010 Jack Stamm Award

Jo McInerney


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

光禿禿山丘
電線杆和電線   
包圍地平線

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

光秃秃山丘
电线杆和电线
包围地平线 


Bio Sketch

Jo McInerney is an Australian writer living in country Victoria with her husband and a calico cat. She has been writing haiku and tanka since 2007, having been introduced to the forms by a friend. She previously wrote mainly free verse.

1 comment:

  1. Jo's visually stunning cinematic haiku reads more like a poetic rendering of the establishing shot of a movie about environmentally destructive industrial development.

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