Monday, April 15, 2013

One Man’s Maple Moon: Night’s Hunters Tanka by Pat Tompkins

English Original

under a half moon
and the gaze of Orion
the night’s hunters:
owls, rabbits, deer mice
unaware of satellites

Scifaikuest, August 2011

Pat Tompkins


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

在上半月
和獵戶座凝視下
的夜晚獵人:
貓頭鷹,兔,鹿鼠
並不知道衛星的存在

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

在上半月
和猎户座凝视下
的夜晚猎人:
猫头鹰,兔,鹿鼠
并不知道卫星的存在


Bio Sketch

Pat Tompkins is an editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her short stories and poems have appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, The Heron's Nest, Astropoetica, flashquake, and other publications.

1 comment:

  1. The shift in theme and mood in L5 stirs the reader's emotion and reflection on the two halves of one "hunting story:" the mythological (in L2) and the technological (in L5) ones.

    The concluding word evokes the image of the novelistic "Big Brother" (in 1984) or of the Foucauldian Panopticon

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