urinating
from my hut door
I too join
this rain
on green leaf
Four Decades of My Tanka Road, 2010
Sanford Goldstein
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
站在小屋門口
小便
我也加入
雨滴
噴灑在綠葉上
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
站在小屋门口
小便
我也加入
雨滴
喷洒在绿叶上
Bio Sketch
Sanford
Goldstein has been publishing tanka for more than fifty years. He was
born in 1925 and is now 95 years old. Long ago, he wrote haiku, but
decided to focus on tanka. His latest books, three in the last two
years, have each said this would be his last.
The upper verse paints an "indecent scene" in a rural area while the lower verse, especially L3, adds a touch of humor to Sanford's lighthearted tanka.
ReplyDeleteIt might be interesting to do a comparative reading of the following urban tanka depicting such an "indecent scene:"
the pub spits out
a final gobful of drunks
halfway home
I hear the moonlight laughing
in a stream of piss
NeverEnding Story, January 19, 2013
Liam Wilkinson