English Original
passport check:
my shadow waits
across the border
Wordless: Haiku Canada 40 Years of Haiku, 2017
George Swede
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
護照檢查：
我的影子等待
越過邊境
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
护照检查：
我的影子等待
越过边境
Bio Sketch
George Swede's most recent collections of haiku are Almost Unseen (Decatur, IL: Brooks Books, 2000), Joy In Me Still (Edmonton: Inkling Press, 2010) and micro haiku: three to nine syllables (Inspress, 2014). He is a former editor of Frogpond: Journal of the Haiku Society of America (2008-2012) and a former Honorary Curator of the American Haiku Archives (2008-2009).
L1 sets sets the theme while Ls 2&3 are an interesting and symbolically rich way to describe the speaker's state of mind/mood in the process of waiting to cross the border.
ReplyDeleteAnd it might be interesting to do a thematic comparison reading of my haiku below:
winter twilight
crossing the border
a child's shadow
4th Prize, 2016 New Zealand Poetry Society Haiku Competition
Anthologized in Penguin Days