Twelve Hokku on a Canadian Theme 4
Silver-haired Marquise! You were transplanted, one Spring, Into wild New France.
Louise Morey Bowman
Silver-haired Marquise! You were transplanted, one Spring, Into wild New France.
Addressing an older aristocratic woman as “Silver-haired Marquise,” the speaker imagines her uprooted from France and set down in rugged early Canada. The word “transplanted” suggests both sympathy and a touch of amusement: she is like a delicate flower moved into untamed soil.
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