Butterfly Dream: Waterfall Spray Haiku by Chuck Brickley

English Original

waterfall spray

a hummingbird draws up

to a rainbow

Earthshine, 2017

Chuck Brickley

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

瀑布的水氣噴霧

一隻蜂鳥停飛

在一道彩虹前面

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

瀑布的水气喷雾

一只蜂鸟停飞

在一道彩虹前面

Bio Sketch

A native San Franciscan, Chuck Brickley lived in rural British Columbia for 35 years. His book of haiku, earthshine, won the THF Touchstone Award for Distinguished Books 2017; the HSA Merit Book Award 2017, Honorable Mention; and the inaugural Marianne Bluger Book Award 2020, Honourable Mention. His haibun,“Is Where The Car Is," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2018, and another haibun, "A Banishing," received a Sonders Best Small Fiction Award nomination, 2019