Translated into Chinese by Chen-ou Liu
on father's coffin
the cowboy hat and polished boots
of a prairie Gael
the skirling pipes
that sing him home
Skylark, Volume 1, Number 2, Winter 2013
Chen-ou's comment
Through well-chosen and ethno-socio-cultural details ("the cowboy hat and and polished boots,"prairie Gael" and "skirling pipes"), Debbie skillfully tells a heartfelt story about who the speaker's father was.
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