the professor drones
on and on about novels
of doomed love
I ask myself
what other kind is there
Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Vol. 4, 2013
Sylvia Forges-Ryan
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
教授用單調聲音
不斷地談論
注定要失敗愛情的小說
我問自己
那裡有另一種愛情
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
教授用单调声音
不断地谈论
注定要失败爱情的小说
我问自己
那里有另一种爱情
Bio Sketch
Sylvia Forges-Ryan, a former Frogpond editor, is the author of Take a Deep Breath, The Haiku Way to Inner Peace. Her latest book, What Light There Is, consists of haiku, senryu, and tanka, with art work by Ion Codrescu. Both books have been selected for permanent inclusion in the Beinecke Library at Yale University.
The upper verse establishes the thematic and tonal context for the tanka while the lower verse enhances a sense of gloom through raising a rhetorical question.
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