English Original
at the rectory
under the bare bulb
two men shooting up
Jack Galmitz
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
牧師宅邸旁邊
在沒有燈罩的電燈泡下
兩名男子注射毒品
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
牧师宅邸旁边
在没有灯罩的电灯泡下
两名男子注射毒品
Bio Sketch
Jack Galmitz was born in NYC in 1951. He received a Ph.D in English from the University of Buffalo. He is an Associate of the Haiku Foundation and Contributing Editor at Roadrunner. His most recent books are Views (Cyberwit.net, 2012), Letters (Lulu Press, 2012), yards & lots (Middle Island Press, 2012), not-zero-sum (Impress 2015) and Takeout (Impress, 2015). He lives in New York with his wife and stepson.
Jack's haiku effectively builds, line by line, to an unexpected yet thematically significant and visually and emotionally poignant ending that reveals the theme of drug abuse and addition. The scene-setting line, at the "rectory," adds emotional weight and psychological depth to the haiku.
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