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Tuesday, February 03, 2015

gray

winter gray
a jet engine whines across
my nerves

grisaille invernale
le couinement d'un moteur
me tape sur les nerfs

I posted my haiku as a comment at Daniele's blog, and she responded with this elegant translation.

3 Comments:

Blogger Magyar said...

__Grand, that engine's growl boring into and becoming the conscious... tension mounts.
_m

4:14 PM  
Blogger Crafty Green Poet said...

very effective

8:00 AM  
Blogger Bill said...

Thanks, M and Juliet. The post I was commenting on was following a prompt of "nerves/nervousness."

10:13 AM  

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