English Original
Inside of me
Bison are stampeding
Across caves
For a Sparrow: Haiku, 2007
Jack Galmitz
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
我內心深處
一群野牛奔騰
穿過洞穴
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
我内心深处
一群野牛奔腾
穿过洞穴
Bio Sketch
Jack Galmitz was born in NYC in 1951. He received a Ph.D in English from the University of Buffalo. He is an Associate of the Haiku Foundation and Contributing Editor at Roadrunner. His most recent books are Views (Cyberwit.net, 2012), Letters (Lulu Press, 2012), yards & lots (Middle Island Press, 2012), not-zero-sum (Impress 2015) and Takeout (Impress, 2015). He lives in New York with his wife and stepson.
The contrast between the natural/exterior world (cave paintings about bison in Ls 2&3) and the speaker's mindscape/interior world (inside of me in L1) gives the haiku a sort of primal, emotional energy.
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