back again
in the tropical heat
I grumble ...
an outsider here
an outsider there
Atlas Poetica, 19, 2014
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
再次回來
在熱帶高溫中
我發牢騷 ...
在這裡是一個外人
在那裡也是一個外人
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
再次回来
在热带高温中
我发牢骚 ...
在这里是一个外人
在那里也是一个外人
Bio Sketch
Samantha
Sirimanne Hyde was born in Sri Lanka and now lives in Australia. She
enjoys dabbling in short fiction, free verse, haiku, tanka and other
Japanese poetry forms.
The upper verse establishes the thematic and seasonal context while the use of syntactic parallelism in the lower verse reveals the lived reality of a diasporic identity -- "neither here nor there at one and the same time." On second reading, the "tropical heat" effectively carries metaphoric significance.
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