English Original
keeping to myself
the inner curl
of the calla lily
Wind Rose, 2021
Michele Root-Bernstein
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
我避免與他人接觸
馬蹄蓮向內捲曲
的花瓣
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
我避免与他人接触
马蹄莲向内卷曲
的花瓣
Bio Sketch
Michele Root-Bernstein appears in A New Resonance 6; the 2016 chapbook, Scent of the Past…Imperfect; Haiku 2014; Haiku 2016; and on three rocks in Ohio. She is co-author with Francine Banwarth of The Haiku Life, What We Learned as Editors of Frogpond and facilitator of a Michigan haiku study group.
The comparison between the speaker's inward personality/L1 and the delicately curved petal/L2 of the visually alluring and symbolically rich calla lily/L3 is emotionally effective and layered with multiple meanings.
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