English Original
dentist office window:
the jack-o'-lantern's
toothless grin
Frogpond, 36:1, Winter 2013
Elliot Nicely
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
牙醫診所的窗戶：
一盞南瓜燈
的無齒笑容
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
牙医诊所的窗户：
一盏南瓜灯
的无齿笑容
Bio Sketch
Elliot Nicely is the author of The Black Between Stars (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2017) and Tangled Shadows: Senryu and Haiku (Rosenberry Books, 2013). He resides in Lakewood, Ohio.
L1 depicts a theme-setting scene while visually and emotionally vivid and seasonal pumpkin image of Ls 2&3, functioning like a "harmless" joke to play on patients, enhances the "hai" (comic) aspect of the haiku.
ReplyDeleteAnd the haiku below could be read as its sequel:
my mouth
full of fingers, the dentist
asks about holidays
Valley Micropress, 13:2, 2010
André Surridge