Butterfly Dream: Blacksmith’s Hammer Haiku by Susan Constable

English Original

sun on steel
the echo
of a blacksmith’s hammer

Haiku Canada Anthology: Comparing Tattoos, 2015

Susan Constable


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

鋼鐵上的陽光
鐵匠錘子敲打
的迴聲

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

钢铁上的阳光
铁匠锤子敲打
的迴声


Bio Sketch

Susan Constable’s haiku and tanka appear in numerous journals and anthologies. Her tanka collection, The Eternity of Waves, was one of the winning entries in the eChapbook Awards for 2012. She co-edited the 2014 anthology for the Seabeck Haiku Retreat and is a co-editor for the 2016 TSA Anthology.