Saturday, March 2, 2019

Butterfly Dream: Thrift Shop Coat Haiku by Sharon Rhutasel-Jones

English Original

thrift shop coat
her arms
shorter than mine

Bottle Rockets, winter 2016

Sharon Rhutasel-Jones


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

舊貨店外套
她的手臂
比我的手臂短

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

旧货店外套
她的手臂
比我的手臂短


Bio Sketch

Sharon Rhutasel-Jones is the author of Living by Ear: a Memoir of a Wayward Teacher and The Teacher Who Learned from Cats which she wrote after retiring from teaching for 52 years.  She lives with her husband and two cats in the village of Los Ranchos, New Mexico.

1 comment:

  1. Sharon's haiku is tightly structured with an emotional undercurrent; what's left unsaid is at least as potent as what's said.

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