Brendan Gillett
Haiku (with Subtitles)
あの。。。ぼくは
[Ah, so…as for me]
こどもに日本語
[like a child in Japanese]
で話せます。
[how it is spoken.]
Haiku (with Translation)
あの。。。ぼくは
こどもに日本語
で話せます。
こどもに日本語
で話せます。
Hesitant, for me
childlike Japanese is the
only thing spoken.
childlike Japanese is the
only thing spoken.
Haiku (with Interpretation)
あの。。。ぼくは
こどもに日本語
で話せます。
I feel small, trying
a language that I learned late—
clinging to the form.
Brendan Gillett can’t read all of his own poetry, for various reasons.