Saturday 28 July 2012

Summer haiku


Red cold
guffaw of summer
slice
of watermelon!

José Juan Tablada, translated by Samuel Beckett.


¡Del verano, roja y fría
carcajada,
rebanada
de sandía!

I get some serious joy from eating a watermelon slice, in particular at my parents' house in their beautiful back garden guarded by pines. 

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