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