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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Butterfly Dream: Eating Watermelon Haiku by Sherry Grant

English Original

eating watermelon
she spits out words of complaint
seed by seed

Chrysanthemum, 29,  April 2021

Sherry Grant


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

大啖西瓜
一粒接一粒她吐出
抱怨之辭

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

大啖西瓜
一粒接一粒她吐出
抱怨之辞


Bio Sketch

Sherry Grant is a NZ concert pianist, cellist and poet originally from Taiwan. She was shortlisted for the 2020 NZ Heritage Literary Awards, and has been published in 35 journals/anthologies. She is the author of Bat Girl (with little Zoe) and inventor of “nonaku.” Sherry presented a rengay workshop at the 2021 HSA conference. See her work at www.artsinfinitypress.com and Chalk-on-the-Walk-Haiku (Facebook).