paupers' cemetery
only the clouds
come and go
Modern Haiku, 48:1, Winter/Spring 2017
Sharon Rhutasel-Jones
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
貧民窟墓園
只有雲彩
來來去去
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
贫民窟墓园
只有云彩
来来去去
Bio Sketch
Sharon Rhutasel-Jones is the author of Living by Ear: a Memoir of a Wayward Teacher and The Teacher Who Learned from Cats which she wrote after retiring from teaching for 52 years. She lives with her husband and two cats in the village of Los Ranchos, New Mexico.
L1 sets the scene while combined with the image of drifting clouds in Ls 2&3, "only" effectively adds emotional weight to the poem.
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