English Original
in my pickup
I look thru the rearview
snagged by a pin oak
the same garbage that
Hilary Tann writes about
Hermitage, 3:1
H. Gene Murtha
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
坐在卡車裡
通過後視鏡我看到
車子被針橡樹纏住
這好像是希拉里·坦恩
所描述一樣的垃圾
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
坐在卡车里
通过后视镜我看到
车子被针橡树缠住
这好像是希拉里·坦恩
所描述一样的垃圾
Bio Sketch
H. Gene Murtha, a naturalist and poet, sponsored and judged the first haiku contest for the inner city children of Camden, NJ., for the Virgilio Group, of which he was a lifetime member. He was widely published for his work in haikai literature from the USA to Japan.
In H. Gene Murtha's allusive tanka, the simile established between a pin oak and the garbage reveals something about the speaker's state of mood/mind.
ReplyDeleteMarch wind —
more garbage
in the trees
f/k/a, "haiku on the wind," Sep. 17 2006
Hilary Tann