poem “Translation (2014 haiku)”, a haiku based on Janet Kuypers’ 2009 twitter-length poem “Translation”, with this haiku incinuating that someone doesn’t have the words to explain trauma, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Translation
(2014 haiku)
Janet Kuypers
haiku 3/15/14

This was only a
translation for trauma — and
I don’t have the words

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See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku Translation (2014 haiku) in her Chicago feature “Nerves of a Poet” live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou 11/21/14 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku Translation (2014 haiku) in her Chicago feature “Nerves of a Poet” live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou 11/21/14 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (SCG)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Nerves of a Poet” (C, of 4 poems and 4 haiku poems) with music from the HA!Man of South Africa live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou in Chicago 11/21/14, INCLUDING THIS POEM

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Nerves of a Poet” (S, of 4 poems and 4 haiku poems) with music from the HA!Man of South Africa live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou in Chicago 11/21/14, INCLUDING THIS POEM

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Nerves of a Poet” (S crop, of 4 poems and 4 haiku poems) with music from the HA!Man of South Africa live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou in Chicago 11/21/14, INCLUDING THIS POEM

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Nerves of a Poet” (S crop glow, of 4 poems and 4 haiku poems) with music from the HA!Man of South Africa live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou in Chicago 11/21/14, INCLUDING THIS POEM

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