Butterfly Dream: Goodbye Haiku by George Swede

English Original

waving goodbye

to the father     a clothesline

of children's shirts

Almost Unseen, 2000

George Swede

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

揮手告別

父親       一條晾衣繩

的兒童襯衫

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

挥手告别

父亲       一条晾衣绳

的儿童衬衫

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).