moving
a handful of moonlight
the owl's wing
A Dictionary of Haiku, 1992
Jane Reichhold
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
挪移
像手掌一樣大的月光
貓頭鷹的翅膀
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
挪移
像手掌一样大的月光
猫头鹰的翅膀
Bio Sketch
Jane
Reichhold was born as Janet Styer in 1937 in Lima , Ohio , USA . She
had published over thirty books of haiku, renga, tanka, and
translations. Her latest tanka book, Taking Tanka Home was translated into Japanese by Aya Yuhki. Her most popular book is Basho The Complete Haiku by Kodansha International. As founder and editor of AHA Books, Jane also published Mirrors: International Haiku Forum, Geppo, for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, and she had co-edited with Werner Reichhold, Lynx for Linking Poets since 1992. Lynx went online in 2000 in AHApoetry.com the web site Jane started in 1995. Since 2006 she had maintained an online forum – AHAforum
... The Technique of Association - This can be thought of as "how different things relate or come together." The Zen of this technique is called "oneness" or showing how everything is part of everything else. You do not have to be a Buddhist to see this; simply being aware of what is, is illumination enough.
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a handful of moonlight
the owl’s wing
The main association is between ‘hand’ and ‘wing’ with a minor one between ‘owl’ and ‘moonlight’. The several ‘o’ sounds also add to the associations...
-- ezxcerpted from "Bare Bones School of Haiku" by Jane Reichhold, accessed at https://www.ahapoetry.com/Bare%20Bones/BBless10.html