Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Butterfly Dream: Winter Thaw Haiku by Mark Dailey

English Original

winter thaw --
a prayer flag
of laundry

Acorn, 34, Spring 2015

Mark Dailey


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

冬天融雪 --
像是祈禱旗般
曬洗的衣服

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

冬天融雪 --
像是祈祷旗般
晾洗的衣服


Bio Sketch

Mark Dailey is an anthropology professor living and working in rural Vermont, USA. He has studied, lived, and researched in mainland China, and has a lifelong interest in Chinese language and poetry. He has devoted his poetry writing to haiku since 2013.

1 comment:

  1. L1 sets the seasonal context while visually appealing and symbolically rich Ls 2&3 make this haiku emotionally effective.

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