English Original
slippery slope
a runaway shopping cart
and its homeless man
World Haiku Series, 2019
Garry Eaton
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
滑坡
一輛失控的購物車
和車內無家可歸的人
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
滑坡
一辆失控的购物车
和车内无家可归的人
Bio Sketch
Garry Eaton was a Canadian poet from British Columbia. He started writing haiku in 2006 and was published occasionally in the major haiku magazines. He volunteered as the digital librarian for The Haiku Foundation Digital Library.
Garry's allegorical haiku is an urban story with two levels of meaning: one is the surface story about a dangerous adrenaline-rush scene of a homeless man in a shopping cart on the slippery slope; and the other is the hidden story about some segment of a society's population going down a slippery slope of unforeseen illness, accidents, or job loss ... into homelessness.
ReplyDeleteHere are two tanka about a homeless man with a shopping cart:
Deleteone block away
from E-business conference
a man
with a shopping cart
talking to the sky
Honorable Mention, 2010 TSA International Tanka Contest
Fay Aoyagi
last glimpse
of the winter moon ...
an old man
with a shopping cart
enters my broken dream
The Bamboo Hut, Summer 2019
Chen-ou Liu