Butterfly Dream: Taste Haiku by Sylvia Forges-Ryan

English Original

breaking off an icicle
         the taste of metal
                   and my childhood

Sylvia Forges-Ryan


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

弄碎一根冰柱
       金屬的味道
              以及我的童年

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

弄碎一根冰柱
       金属的味道
              以及我的童年


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.