Friday, January 6, 2017

Butterfly Dream: Breathless Quiet Haiku by Jo McInerney

English Original

breathless quiet
of a summer evening ...
ship in a bottle

The Heron’s Nest, 13:1,  March 2011

Jo McInerney


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

夏日夜晚
無法呼吸般的安靜 ...
瓶裡的船

Chinese Translation (Simplified)


夏日夜晚
无法呼吸般的安静 ...
瓶里的船


Bio Sketch

Jo McInerney is an Australian writer living in country Victoria with her husband and a calico cat. She has been writing haiku and tanka since 2007, having been introduced to the forms by a friend. She previously wrote mainly free verse.

1 comment:

  1. Jo skillfully uses the comparison between the two parts of the poem to explore different types of confinement or entrapment.

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