English Original
end of summer
the rust on my scissors
smells of marigolds
Tug of the Current, 2004
Margaret Chula
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
夏末
我剪刀上的鐵銹
有萬壽菊的氣味
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
夏末
我剪刀上的铁锈
有万寿菊的气味
Bio Sketch
Margaret Chula has published two collections of tanka: Always Filling, Always Full and Just This. She has promoted tanka through her one-woman dramatization, “Three Women Who Loved Love”, which traveled to Krakow, New York, Boston, Portland, Ottawa, and Ogaki, Japan. Maggie currently serves as president of the Tanka Society of America.
When evaluated in the seasonal context of L1, the multi-sensory juxtaposition of the "rust" on the scissors and the "smell" of marigolds (usually blooming nonstop from early summer until they are nipped by frost in autumn) are visually and emotionally effective, and the rust on the scissors shows something about the type of a garden person the speaker is.
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