Tuesday, November 19, 2019

One Man's Maple Moon: Fingers and Coins Tanka by Larry Kimmel

English Original

our fingers
touch
the small
arithmetic
of coins

Atlas Poetica, 24, Spring 2016

Larry Kimmel


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

我們的手指
碰觸到
一堆
少量
的硬幣

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

我们的手指
碰触到
一堆
少量
的硬币


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).

1 comment:

  1. Within an extremely short space of 8 words and 13 syllables, Larry's one-sentence minimalist tanka leaves enough dreaming room for the reader to ponder the question of "small/arithmetic of coins," the context/setting of which can be set by the reader's lived experience/imagination.

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