English Original
freight train running through the valley the Milky Way
Frogpond, Spring 2018
Mark Miller
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
貨運列車穿過銀河山谷
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
货运列车穿过银河山谷
Bio Sketch
Mark Miller is an award-winning poet who has published over 300 haiku in international journals and anthologies, including Presence, Shamrock, Acorn, Frogpond, Akitsu Quarterly,The Heron’s Nest, Under the Basho and Windfall: Australian Haiku. He lives on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
Enhanced by the quick pace of its one-line format, this haiku is highly cinematic, reading like/working well as a poetic rendering of an establishing shot of a summer night train scene. Its unexpected yet visually evocative and symbolically rich enindg, the "milky way/river of stars," strengthens its emotionally suggestive power.
ReplyDeleteAnd it might be interesting to do a thematic comparison reading of the following haiku:
Deletethe remote blast
of a freight train horn
winter solitude
Presence, 54, February 2016
Olivier Schopfer