in the old photo
beside your pretty wife
you look so happy
in black & white --
the colors of ashes
Atlas Poetica, 21 Spring 2015
Larry Kimmel
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
舊照片中
你站在漂亮的妻子身邊
看起來挺高興
這黑白照片 --
現在看到卻是骨灰的顏色
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
旧照片中
你站在漂亮的妻子身边
看起来挺高兴
这黑白照片 -
现在看到却是骨灰的颜色
Bio Sketch
Larry Kimmel lives quietly in the hills of western Massachusetts. His most recent books are shards and dust (cherita), outer edges (tanka) and thunder and apple blossoms (haiku).
Enhanced by the contrasting symbolic significance of colors (black & white and gray), the shift, thematic, visual and emotional,in L5 adds psychological depth and poignancy to the tanka.
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