Canadian geese
hiss at each passerby
somewhere
guns are fired
at a border crossing
Atlas Poetica Special Feature: Snipe Rising from a Marsh
Christina Nguyen
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
加拿大鵝
對路人嘶嘶叫
在邊界過境
的某個地方
槍聲響起
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
加拿大鹅
对路人嘶嘶叫
在边界过境
的某个地方
枪声响起
Bio Sketch
Christina Nguyen is a poet and writer living in Minnesota, USA. Find her on Twitter as @TinaNguyen and blogging Japanese short form poetry at A wish for the sky…. Her work has appeared in various anthologies and journals including Modern Haiku, Ribbons, GUSTS, red lights, American Tanka, Frogpond, Prune Juice, Moonbathing, and tinywords. In 2013, some of her poetry will appear in A New Resonance 8: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku from Red Moon Press.
Christina's tanka is timely and well-crafted. The narrative twist at the end of the poem makes the contrasts parodically poignant.
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-- excerpted from Democracy!Now, June 28, 2013, http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/27/headlines#6271