Friday, June 29, 2018

Butterfly Dream: Embrace Haiku by Ulrike Narwani

English Original

on the chair
your sweater still holding
my embrace

Erotic Haiku, Of Skin on Skin, 2017

Ulrike Narwani


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

在椅子上
你的毛衣依舊握住
我的擁抱

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

在椅子上
你的毛衣依旧握住
我的拥抱


Bio Sketch

Ulrike Narwani’s poetry has appeared in literary journals, chapbooks and anthologies. Won Freefall’s contest (2012), and received honorable mention in Vallum (2013). Collecting Silence is her debut volume of poetry (Ronsdale Press, 2017). Her poem "Three Wishes" was selected for the 2017 BC Poetry in Transit program. 

2 comments:

  1. Combined with the use of a synecdoche, this understated erotic haiku is tightly structured with an emotional undercurrent.

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  2. it is very beautiful the ascending climax, love, loss, regret, melancholy, chase each other in growing emotions

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