another spring
the knotted branch
in the shredder

Blithe Spirit, 27:2, 2017

Stella Pierides

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

另一個春天
將一根打結的樹枝
扔到切碎機中

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

另一个春天
将一根打结的树枝
扔到切碎机中

Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐December 7, 2018 

Stella’s shasei (sketch from life) haiku is tightly structured with an emotional undercurrent: “another” in L1 shows the narrator’s attitude to the passing of time while the symbolically rich image of the “knotted branch” in the shredder in Ls 2&3 makes this haiku visually and emotionally effective.

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