English Original
the emptiness
of all inboxes --
insomnia
Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology, 2019
Marita Gargiulo
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
所有的電子郵件信箱
都是空的 --
失眠
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
所有的电子邮件信箱
都是空的 --
失眠
Bio Sketch
Marita Gargiulo found haiku at MIT in the 70’s while editing a poetry magazine. She was the guest editor for The Haiku Foundation, featuring “pan-artistic” haiku, and organized poetry events with her local arts commission and symphony orchestra. In 2019, her haibun won third place in the HSA’s Annual Haibun Contest.
The twist or surprise ending, "insomnia," makes an effective thematic change in the direction or expected outcome of this haiku, revealing something interesting about the N's personality/life (viewing emails when sleepless), and even about his/her relationship with others from this virtual world of the internet.
ReplyDeleteAnd on a second reading, L1 effectively carries symbolic/emotional significance.
Here are another two insomnia haiku for your "reading pleasure:"
ReplyDeletesleepless night
the book's empty pages
emptying me
World Haiku Review, Summer 2013
Ben Moeller-Gaa
I crawl through
the maze in my mind ...
Covidsomnia
Failed Haiku, 6:64, April 2021
Chen-ou Liu