another race lost in the eyes of a greyhound
Acorn, 31, Autumn 2013
Helen Buckingham
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
在灰獵犬的眼中再輸一場比賽
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
在灰猎犬的眼中再输一场比赛
Bio Sketch
Helen Buckingham was born in London, 1960 and has recently moved to Wells, Somerset. She has been writing haiku for the past two decades and her work has been placed in many awards, journals, and anthologies including: Haiku in English: the First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013).
The pace of a one-liner and the use of the culturally and symbolically rich phrase, "a greyhound" (one of the oldest breeds of dogs, which was bred and raised by the aristocracy in England before the 9th century) make the poem thematically and emotionally effective.
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