One Man's Maple Moon: Boughs Tanka by Susan Weaver

English Original

if I'd really listened

what might she have told me

one bough

              scrapes another

in the wind

Ribbons, 16:2, Spring/Summer 2020

Susan Weaver

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

如果我真地用心聽了

她可能告訴我相關事情

一根樹枝

               刮傷另一根

在強風中

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

如果我真地用心听了

她可能告诉我相关事情

一根树枝

               刮伤另一根

在强风中

Bio Sketch

After a career as a magazine journalist specializing in bicycling and active travel, Susan Weaver began writing tanka in 2009. Her work appears regularly in Moonbathing, red lights, Ribbons, and elsewhere, and she is tanka prose editor of Ribbons. She lives in Pennsylvania with her landscape-painter husband and two cats.

One Man's Maple Moon: Land Snail Tanka by Susan Weaver

English Original

under my daffodils

a land snail

stretches forward, forward

pearly house on its back ...

I forget my burdens

“Tanka of Flowing Tranquility,” Atlas Poetica, 2019

Susan Weaver

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

在我的水仙花下

一隻土蝸牛

向前伸展, 向前伸展

珍珠色的房子在它的背上 ...

我忘記了我的重擔

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

在我的水仙花下

一只土蜗牛

向前伸展, 向前伸展

珍珠色的房子在它的背上 ...

我忘记了我的重担

Bio Sketch

After a career as a magazine journalist specializing in bicycling and active travel, Susan Weaver began writing tanka in 2009. Her work appears regularly in Moonbathing, red lights, Ribbons, and elsewhere, and she is tanka prose editor of Ribbons. She lives in Pennsylvania with her landscape-painter husband and two cats.

One Man's Maple Moon: Shelter Tanka by Susan Weaver

English Original

a girl is pulled

from her papi's arms

at the border  --

months later, still silent

about her stay in the shelter

redlights, January 2020

Susan Weaver

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

在邊界一個小女孩

從她爸爸的懷裡

被拉開帶走 --

幾個月後, 依舊沒有關於她

住在收容所的消息

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

在边界一个小女孩

从她爸爸的怀里

被拉开带走 --

几个月后, 依旧没有关于她

住在收容所的消息

Bio Sketch

After a career as a magazine journalist specializing in bicycling and active travel, Susan Weaver began writing tanka in 2009. Her work appears regularly in Moonbathing, red lights, Ribbons, and elsewhere, and she is tanka prose editor of Ribbons. She lives in Pennsylvania with her landscape-painter husband and two cats.

One Man's Maple Moon: Old Sweater Tanka by Susan Weaver

English Original

I can't stay here
... any more
like the sleeves
of an old sweater
your life unraveling

Ribbons, 12:1, Winter 2016

Susan Weaver


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

我不能呆在這裡
... 我不能
你的生活
像一件舊毛衣的袖子
暴露無遺

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

我不能呆在这里
... 我不能
你的生活
像一件旧毛衣的袖子
暴露无遗


Bio Sketch

Susan Weaver is editor of Ribbons, journal of the Tanka Society of America. Her tanka and tanka prose poems have recently appeared there and in Atlas Poetica, Haiku Page, HARTS & Minds, Moonbathing, and red lights. A former bicycling and travel writer, she lives in Allentown, Pa., with her husband and two cats.