Monday, August 15, 2016

Butterfly Dream: Seaside Cafe Haiku by Ben Moeller-Gaa

English Original

seaside café
the bottomless cup
of her story

Frogpond, 38:1, Winter 2015

Ben Moeller-Gaa


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

海邊咖啡館
她的故事
好像無底的杯子

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

海边咖啡馆
她的故事
好像无底的杯子


Bio Sketch

Ben Moeller-Gaa is a haiku poet and a contributing poetry editor to River Styx literary magazine. He is the author of two haiku chapbooks, Wasp Shadows (Folded Word 2014) and Blowing on a Hot Soup Spoon (poor metaphor design 2014). You can find more on Ben online at www.benmoellergaa.com

1 comment:

  1. Combined with the emotionally resonant juxtaposition, L2 effectively provides a scent link (in Basho's sense of the phrase) to L1, lifting the poem out of the ordinary.

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