Two Senryu 川柳

D. Brink 2007

            

        1

春の民草刈りながらお見通し

In cutting the grass the people

   in spring see to the future

春天的除草透亮著遠方的願景

        2

アザミ野のわらび段々顔見上げ

In a field of thistles the ferns

    gradually find their way

   荊棘裡過貓的臉龐漸顯曲直

[Thanks to Huang Shih-Yi for the Mandarin translations

and David Jiang for help with transcultural imagery.]

Mister Coffee

Mister Coffee
is a flash sf story I wrote--set in Taiwan--and appearing in Every Day Fiction. It's about a mother, daughter and their robot as they struggle to keep their business going. The comments on the site are very interesting too; thanks for the feedback.

12 Tone Tango for Two

12 Tone Tango for Two (opens audio in new window)
This short piano composition marries the tango with atonal serialism--technically a no-no if one follows Milton Babbitt's approach to serialism (linking temporal and spatial intervals). Here the two tone rows live in a tango rhythm.