English Original
pieces of sun
trapped in the birches
wren song
Cattails, January 2015
Marilyn Fleming
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
一片片的太陽
被困在樺樹枝中
鷦鷯在歌唱
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
一片片的太阳
被困在桦树枝中
鹪鹩在歌唱
Bio Sketch
Marilyn Fleming was born and
raised on a farm in Wisconsin USA. She won her first prize in the
Hildegarde Janzen Oriental Forms Award in 1988. Samples of her poetry
can be read on her website
The effective use of the sense-switching technique and arresting imagery lift the poem out of the ordinary.
ReplyDeleteNicely done.