Saturday, October 17, 2020

Butterfly Dream: Small Talk by Jack Galmitz

English Original

Fireflies
crossing the porch
small talk

Applause Please, 2020

Jack Galmitz


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

螢火蟲
飛越過門廊
話家常

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

萤火虫
飞越过门廊
话家常

 
Bio Sketch
 
Jack Galmitz was born in NYC in 1951. He received a Ph.D in English from the University of Buffalo.  He is an Associate of the Haiku Foundation and Contributing Editor at Roadrunner.  His most recent books are Views (Cyberwit.net, 2012),  Letters (Lulu Press, 2012), yards & lots (Middle Island Press, 2012), not-zero-sum (Impress 2015) and Takeout (Impress, 2015).  He lives in New York with his wife and stepson.
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1 comment:

  1. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐October 17, 2020 at 10:00 AM

    Jack's haiku is tightly structured with an emotional undercurrent beneath this "inconsequential conversation" (small talk). This fine "mood haiku" could be read as a prequel to the following poem:

    lights out
    ... the firefly
    inside

    To Hear the Rain, 2002

    Peggy Willis Lyles

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