One Man's Maple Moon: Anniversaries Tanka by M. Kei

English Original

a colleague wishes me
Thanksgiving cheer --
but I have
a desk full of dark
anniversaries unspoken

M. Kei


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

一位同事祝福我
感恩節快樂 --
然而我有
滿桌黑暗
的無言紀念日

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

一位同事祝福我
感恩节快乐 --
然而我有
满桌黑暗
的无言纪念日


Bio Sketch

M. Kei is a tall ship sailor and award-winning poet. He is the editor-in-chief of Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, and the author of Slow Motion : The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack (Recommend Reading by the Chesapeake Bay Project). He is the editor of Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka and compiler of the Bibliography of English-Language Tanka. He has published over 1500 tanka poems. He also published a gay Asian-themed fantasy novel, Fire Dragon. Twitter: @kujakupoet