a wasp
caught between window and screen --
the paths we take
Adelaide B. Shaw
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
一隻黃蜂
卡在窗戶和窗簾之間 --
我們所走的道路
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
一只黄蜂
卡在窗户和窗簾之间 --
我们所走的道路
Bio Sketch
Adelaide
B. Shaw lives in Milbrook, NY with her husband. She has published short
fiction, children’s poetry and stories, haiku, tanka, haibun and haiga.
She has served as an editor and as a contest judge for Japanese style
poetry. Her haiku blog is: www.adelaide-whitepetals.blogspot.com/ Her haiku collection, An Unknown Road, won a 2009 Merit Book Award sponsored by the Haiku Association of America.
Combined with the technique of foreshadowing, this thematically significant and emotionally resonant juxtaposition (of a "wasp/caught between window and screen" and the "paths we take") reveals a moment of insight into life-changing decisions.
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