English Original
touring the farms
the sun sets in a glass
of elderberry wine
Third Place, The Shiki Monthly Kukai, May 2009
Garry Eaton
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
參觀農場
太陽浮現在接骨木漿水果酒
的酒杯
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
参观农场
太阳浮现在接骨木浆水果酒
的酒杯
Bio Sketch
Garry Eaton was a Canadian poet from British Columbia. He started writing haiku in 2006 and was published occasionally in the major haiku magazines. He volunteered as the digital librarian for The Haiku Foundation Digital Library.
The wine-tasting tour, from one farm to another as implied from L1 (touring the "farms"), depcited in Ls 2&3 is satisfactory as indicated in the "setting" sun reflected in the N's wine glass .
ReplyDeleteA visually and emotionaly evocative shasei (sketch from life) haiku.
And the following wine-tasting haiku could be read as its sequel:
full-bodied rain
the wine tasting
winds down
tinywords, 13:3, Dec. 31 2013
LeRoy Gorman