a round trip ticket
the shape of a navel
promises us
at the end of this life
we come back home
Ardea, 2, 2012
Jane Reichhold
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
一張雙程車票
像似肚臍的形狀
向我們保證
在生命旅程的盡頭
我們會回到家
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
一张双程车票
像似肚脐的形状
向我们保证
在生命旅程的尽头
我们会回到家
Bio Sketch
Jane
Reichhold was born as Janet Styer in 1937 in Lima , Ohio , USA . She
had published over thirty books of haiku, renga, tanka, and
translations. Her latest tanka book, Taking Tanka Home was translated into Japanese by Aya Yuhki. Her most popular book is Basho The Complete Haiku by Kodansha International. As founder and editor of AHA Books, Jane also published Mirrors: International Haiku Forum, Geppo, for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, and she had co-edited with Werner Reichhold, Lynx for Linking Poets since 1992. Lynx went online in 2000 in AHApoetry.com the web site Jane started in 1995. Since 2006 she had maintained an online forum – AHAforum
The jux. of a "round trip ticket" (a symbol of life journey) and a "navel' (a symbol of the center of where life begins) is thematically resonant and visually evocative, and the last two lines effectively carry emotional and symbolic significance.
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