English Original
what she knows
about my daily grind ...
espresso coffee
Prune Juice, 33, 2021
Milan Rajkumar
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
她知道那些
關於我的日常勞苦 ...
濃縮咖啡
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
她知道那些
关于我的日常劳苦 ...
浓缩咖啡
Bio Sketch
Milan Rajkumar is a secondary school teacher who teaches economics while writing haiku. He lives in a corner of the north eastern India. Genetically a mongoloid by look and food, he speaks a Tibeto-Burman language known as 'Manipuri' ‘Meiteilon’. Writing is his passion since childhood. Nowadays he writes haiku every day and night.
The "implied contrast" between one's daily grind, L2 and "espresso grind/very finely ground coffee like powdered sugar" made for espresso coffee, L3, is multi-sensorily effective and symbolically rich.
ReplyDeleteThank you Chen-ou Liu for the publication and the translation. 👍
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