English Original
a peregrine falcon
swift at the wall of space
stoops
into the wave
of the wind
Presence, 62, November 2018
A A Marcoff
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
一隻獵鷹
迅速飛抵太空之牆
然後向下俯衝
進入浪潮般
的大風
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
一只猎鹰
迅速飞抵太空之墙
然后向下俯冲
进入浪潮般
的大风
Bio Sketch
A A Marcoff is an Anglo-Russian poet, born in Iran, who has lived in Africa, Iran, France and Japan. He is a much-published mainstream poet as well as a writer of tanka. He lives near the beautiful River Mole in Surrey, England.
This symbolically rich, imagistic one-sentence tanka effectively builds, line by line, to a visually powerful ending: the Peregrine falcon, the fastest bird and in fact the fastest animal on Earth, beautifully executing a dive.
ReplyDeleteFYI: "The Peregrine falcon soars to a great height, then dives steeply at speeds of over 200 miles (320 km) per hour."