Butterfly Dream: Latte Haiku by Ernest J. Berry

English Original

late again 

the thickening skin 

on her latte

getting on, 2021

Ernest J. Berry

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

又遲到了

她的拿鐵咖啡上

增厚的泡沫皮

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

又迟到了

她的拿铁咖啡上

增厚的泡沫皮

Bio Sketch

Ernest J. Berry was born in 1929 in Christchurch, New Zealand. After a decade of shepherding, he spent several years in business before retiring to a beach in Mexico where he rediscovered his boyhood love of poetry. He un-retired in 1993 and settled in Picton. After founding Picton Poets in 1994, he started teaching haiku in workshops, secondary schools  and haiku meetings. Two of his haiku books were honoured with Merit Book Awards from The Haiku Society of America. 

Butterfly Dream: Wolf Moon Haiku by Joshua St. Claire

English Original

Wolf Moon

the howling from a pack

of boys

Joshua St. Claire

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

狼月

一群男孩子

的嚎叫聲

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

狼月

一群男孩子

的嚎叫声

Bio Sketch

Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from small-town Pennsylvania who works as a financial director for a non-profit. His haiku has been published or is forthcoming in The Heron’s Nest, Frogpond, bottle rockets, and Blithe Spirit, among others. His work has appeared in the Dwarf Stars Anthology and he is the winner of the Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Award and the Trailblazer Award.