One Man's Maple Moon: Chick-A-Dee-Dee Tanka by Kozue Uzawa

English Original

a chickadee

singing chick-a-dee-dee

I take it easy

this tiring summer---

I skip my tap lessons

Gusts, 34, Fall/winter 2021

Kozue Uzawa

 

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

一隻山雀

快樂地不停歌唱

這個疲憊的夏天

我打算放鬆一下 --

逃掉了踢踏舞課

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

一只山雀

快乐地不停歌唱

这个疲惫的夏天

我打算放松一下 --

逃掉了踢踏舞课

 

 

Bio Sketch

Kozue Uzawa is a retired university professor. She works as editor of the English tanka journal GUSTS. She composes tanka both in Japanese and English. She also translates Japanese tanka into English and co-published Ferris Wheel: 101 Modern and Contemporary Tanka (Boston: Cheng & Tsui, 2006), and Kaleidoscope: Selected Tanka of Shuji Terayama (Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 2008). Ferris Wheel received the 2007 Donald Keene Translation Award for Japanese Literature from Columbia University.