English Original
late summer rain
this green, green grass
oh! … glistening
surrounds our new house
and the old oak stump
Denis M. Garrison
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
夏末的雨
這綠油油的草地
哦！... 閃閃發光
圍繞著我們的新房子
和老橡樹樁
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
夏末的雨
这绿油油的草地
哦！ ... 闪闪发光
围绕着我们的新房子
和老橡树桩
Bio Sketch
Denis M. Garrison, from Iowa, now lives in Maryland. His childhood was spent in Japan, youth in Europe, Africa and western Pacific. His poetry’s widely published. Garrison’s print collections include First Winter Rain, Eight Shades of Blue, Hidden River, Sailor in the Rain and Other Poems, and Fire Blossoms.
Denis's arrangement of the images ("late summer" rain, glistering grass, a new house, and the old oak "stump") in a dialectically contrasting manner makes the tanka visually and emotionally effective, and these symbolically rich, contrasting images successfully add significance, thematic and emotional, to his tanka.
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