quilting bee
train tracks stitch
prairie to sky
Acorn, 33, Fall 2014
Debbie Strange
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
絎縫蜂
火車軌道接合
大草原和天際線
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
绗缝蜂
火车轨道接合
大草原和天际线
Bio Sketch
Debbie
Strange belongs to the Writers' Collective of Manitoba and several
haiku and tanka organizations. Her writing has received awards and been
published in numerous journals. She is a singer-songwriter and
photographer whose photographs have been published and exhibited. She
is currently assembling a haiga collection. Visit her on twitter
@Debbie_Strange
Debbie skillfully employs the zoom-out technique and the word link ("quilting" /"stitch") to give the reader this colorful image of a bee in a vast expanse of prairie with train tracks across it. This haiku reminds me of one of my favorite poems by Emily Dickinson:
ReplyDeleteTo make a prairie (1755)
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.