shooting star
i reshuffle
the tarot
Sonic Boom, 8, 2017
Ben Moeller-Gaa
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
流星
我重洗
塔羅牌
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
流星
我重洗
塔罗牌
Bio Sketch
Ben Moeller-Gaa is a Pushcart nominee and the author of the 2018 Touchstone Award winning Wishbones (Folded Word 2018), a full length collection of haiku and senryu, as well as three chapbooks, Fiddle in the Floorboards (Yavanika Press 2018), Blowing on a Hot Soup Spoon (poor metaphor 2014) and the Pushcart nominated Wasp Shadows (Folded Word 2014). Find out more about Ben at www.benmoellergaa.com.
The juxtaposition of the visually and emotionally evocative image of a shooting star and the psycho-culturally significant card reading game, the tarot, makes this haiku emotionally effective, And the verb, "reshuffle," enhances the psychological depth of the haiku.
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