Cultural Understanding
Month: July 2020
Heartbeat (Mai Ly hagan)
At dawn, the sun breaks through the water; golden grains threshed in the water. Lush, looming islands reach into the sky and disperse the light like green seeds over black soil. A sea eagle glides across the water, swoops down to catch a fish. Water and blood drips from its beak. On land, a lizard […]
More百人一首 (yuko tanaka)
This is a collection of traditional Japanese Wakas and their translations recommended by Yuko Tanaka. 百人一首 contains one hundred Wakas by one hundred poets. They are also playing cards.“Waka” (和歌） is a type of Japanese poetry, that contains syllables: 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 in this order. 2. 持統天皇 春過ぎて 夏来にけらし 白妙の 衣ほすてふ 天の香具山 Spring has passed,And the white robes […]
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Home (Elena Lu)
Raindrops stick to the glass of the window. The buildings in the distance blur together, creating a nebulous image, a backdrop to the sharp figure of the tumbling flood. Is it day six, or seven? Each morning blends into the next, until nothing remains but the stinging portrait in front of me. My mind […]
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The Big Duck 