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Paul Pfleuger, Jr.

mrflooger@yahoo.com	English
No personal website	Taiwan

Paul Pfleuger, Jr., is from Buffalo, New York and was born in 1970. He’s been an English instructor in Taiwan, since relocating from New York City in 1999. Currently an English Lecturer with the Department of Applied Languages for Interpretation at Chang Jung University, he holds a B.A. in Public Communication from The State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo State, an International Master’s of Business Administration at National Cheng Kung University, where he is presently taking a PhD. Academically, he has published journal articles concerning information privacy concerns, ethical perceptions of RFID’ and behavior towards surveillance technology. His poetry is published in journals such as Ginyu, Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, bottle rockets, Acorn, Simply Haiku, Roadrunner and World Haiku Review, as well as others, and appears in Red Moon Anthologies, ‘edge of light’, ‘tug of the current’, ‘inside the mirror’, and the forthcoming ‘big sky’ from 2003-2006. Pfleuger is one the featured poets in ‘A New Resonance 4’ from Red Moon Press and also appears in the World Haiku Association’s ‘World Haiku 2007’. He has placed second in the 10th International Kusamakura Haiku Competition 2005, Foreign Language Category, the 7th Annual Haiku International Contest 2005, 10^th Mainichi Haiku Contest in 2006 and received the Judges’ Award in the Ito En New Haiku Contest in 2007. He is a member of the World Haiku Association.

If possible, could the following 9 poems be shown on the WHA website?

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Mandarin Translations by陳召燕 (Zhao-yan Chen)

Dark eyes swaying white panties in the breeze	黑暗的眼擺盪的白色微風中的短襯褲
At the spring market I buy into the illusion of a straw hat	春天的市場我浸盈在一頂草帽的幻覺之中
The golden arches go out and as if with permission- the heavens	金黃色拱門熄滅如同需要准許般天空
infinity then a fishing boat on the horizon	無窮盡地平線上一艘漁船
a red balloon floating above the eagle cage	一個紅色氣球漂浮著在關著老鷹的籠子上
sundown colors of both flags over Antietam	日落兩面旗幟的顏色安提坦
through dreamlike clouds the suburbs	飛機窗外穿透夢幻的雲郊區
over the petri dish each kid's face quite different	培養皿上方每個小孩的臉截然不同
All five tastes in our mouths- the impeachment fails	五味覺在每人嘴裡責難失敗
Long plum rains- have I tasted mother’s milk?	梅雨綿延我是否嚐過母親的奶水?

Author: Paul Pfleuger, Jr.
Editor: Ban'ya Natsuishi
Translator:Ban'ya Natsuishi

Credits
1-3 Ginyu No. 31
4 World Haiku Review Vol. 5, Issue 1 2005
5 7th Haiku International Association Award Prize Winner, Nov. 2005
6 Frogpond, Fall Issue, 2006
7 from a plane Frogpond Winter Issue, 2006
8 bottle rockets, Vol. 6, No. 1 Spring/Summer, 2006, World Haiku 2007
9,10 Ginyu #34

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