English Original
this way and that
seagull tracks
mapping wet sand
Octoberstone Journal, 2005
Evelyn Lang
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
這條路徑或是那條
海鷗的足跡
測繪潮濕的沙灘
这条路径或是那条
海鸥的足迹
测绘潮湿的沙滩
Bio Sketch
Evelyn Lang was a long time member of the Haiku Society of America and had written haiku and haibun for over twenty years. She published two collections of haiku, Wild Pond and Octoberstone Journal. And she was selected to be the guest poet on Tom Clausen’s Mann Library Daily Haiku for the month of October, 2010.
A low tide walk (Ls 2&3 ) scene with seagulls is vividly depicted in this seashore haiku, and juxtaposed with "tracks mapping" in Ls 2&3, L1, "this way and that," takes on a new meaning, a symbolic one.
ReplyDeleteAnd Evelyn's evocative haiku could be read as a sequel to the following one:
low tide
in the gull's footprints
echoes of flight
echoes of flight, 2018
Jane Williams