Thursday, April 18, 2013

Butterfly Dream: Bathroom Haiku by Kirsten Cliff

English Original

the size of this bathroom
with me in it
as well as the fly

Prune Juice, 7, January 2012

Kirsten Cliff


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

這樣大的浴室
裡面有我
和一隻蒼蠅

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

这样大的浴室
里面有我
和一只苍蝇


Bio Sketch

Kirsten Cliff is a New Zealand writer and poet whose work has been published in journals worldwide, and will soon appear in A New Resonance 8. She is currently working on her first collection, Patient Property, which explores her recent journey through leukaemia. Kirsten is editor of the haikai section of the New Zealand Poetry Society magazine, a fine line, and she blogs at Swimming in Lines of Haiku.

4 comments:

  1. Kirsten's rhetorical use of the "size of this bathroom" (what size is it?) is humorously effective. If Issa were alive and could read English, he would have smiled at her.

    one human being,
    One fly,
    In a large room

    written by Issa; translated by Robert Hass

    A well-crafted allusive haiku with an aesthetic focus on the "hai."

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  2. Made me :)

    Well done, Kirsten.

    marion

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