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Cold Cotton Shirts Tanka by Sergio Ortiz

English Original

last night
weary eyes blossomed
in the closet       
his cold cotton shirts
warmed by my hands

Lynx, 28:2, June 2013

Sergio Ortiz


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

昨晚
疲憊的眼睛一亮
我的手溫暖
衣櫃裡
他的防寒棉襯衫

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

昨晚
疲惫的眼睛一亮
我的手温暖
衣柜里
他的防寒棉衬衫


Bio Sketch

Sergio Ortiz is an educator.  Flutter Press released his debut chapbook, At the Tail End of Dusk (2009), and his second chapbook, Bedbugs in My Mattress (2010).  He is a three-time nominee for the 2010, 2011 Sundress Best of the Web Anthology, and a 2010 Pushcart nominee.  He received a Commendation in the 2012 International Polish Haiku Competition.  His poems appear in, Shot Glass, Notes from the Gean, Atlas Poetica,Skylark, A Hundred Gourds, Poetry Pacific,  Lynx, and Kernels Online; are forthcoming inRibbons.

tanka

in life’s foyer

you were a bougainvillea

with no thorns . . .

I, the caretaker, sweeping

away fallen petals