Across
the Editor's Desk
Shadows Bloom
Scáthanna Faoi Bhláth
by John W. Sexton |
| A powerful and at times
iconoclastic first haiku collection from this Irish poet and novelist,
with excellent translations into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock.
More than one hundred haiku in a finely produced volume.
|
sunlit street
a jackdaw shadow
passes through me |
sráid ghrianlasta
gabhann scáil
an cháig tríom
|
crow’s mechanical call
I flavour my tea
with raindrops
|
guth meicniúil an phréacháin
cuirim blas ar an tae
le deora báistí |
broken sky
a single pony
keeps the field from straying
|
spéir bhriste
ní ligeann an capaillín aonair
don ghort dul ar strae |
counting the raindrops
on my face
then nothing but rain |
ag comhaireamh na mbraonta
ar m’aghaidh agus ansin
faic - síorbháisteach |
fallen child
thistle kites rise
from the tall grass |
páiste a thit
eitleoga an fheochadáin
as féar ard |
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