Friday, January 31, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Snowshoe Hare Haiku by Chuck Brickley

English Original

a snowshoe hare
hops through its breath
morning star
Chuck Brickley


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

一隻雪鞋兔
跳躍穿過鼻息所形成的雲霧
一顆晨星

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

一只雪鞋兔
跳跃穿过鼻息所形成的云雾
一颗晨星


Bio Sketch

A native San Franciscan, Chuck Brickley lived in rural British Columbia for 35 years. His book of haiku, earthshine, won the THF Touchstone Award for Distinguished Books 2017; the HSA Merit Book Award 2017, Honorable Mention; and the inaugural Marianne Bluger Book Award 2020, Honourable Mention. His haibun,“Is Where The Car Is," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2018, and another haibun, "A Banishing," received a Sonders Best Small Fiction Award nomination, 2019

1 comment:

  1. This is a textbook case of shasei (sketch from life) haiku infused with imagistic imagery,

    Its visually and emotionally ecocative jux. effectively preserves the "sparkles of the particular in its universal appeal. "

    Haiku is still a "poetry of small things and of everyday experience" that preserves the "sparkles of the particular in its universal appeal. "

    -- Walker Haberstroh

    And it might be interesting to do a thematic comparison reading of the following haiku:

    a swath of moonlight
    rabbit prints in the snowy path
    and the owl's shadow

    NeverEnding Story, March 2, 2014

    Kay L. Tracy

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