English Original
each day
driving to and from
chemo
a chance to talk --
we turn up the radio
Cattails, April, 2019
Keitha Keyes
每天
開車往返
接受化療
有談話的機會 --
我們打開收音機
每天
开车往返
接受化疗
有谈话的机会 --
我们打开收音机
Bio Sketch
Keitha Keyes lives in Sydney, surrounded by antique irons and ship models. She enjoys writing tanka, haiku, senryu, cherita and related genres. Her work is published in many journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas.
Keitha's tanka effectively builds, line by line, to a thematically significant and emotionally relatable and poignant ending that reveals the theme of a cancer patient's experiencing changes in relation to his/her loved one/caretaker.
ReplyDeleteAnd it could be read as a sequel or prequel to Keitha's tanka below:
each day now
I think about myself
in the third person
… that woman
with breast cancer
Cattails, October, 2019