Mother and the old white shirt

Has your grapefruit tree bloomed yet?
Mom still has sticky rice and gardenia
March calls for yellow sunshine and canola flowers
The squash has climbed up the trellis that mother built, waiting for the season to come.

The river now has a duckweed bridge across it.
The water is still clear enough to see the fish swimming.
Mother came home as a daughter-in-law in a white dress and hurried to class.
Afternoon has come, I have followed the burden to the field.

Mother's time is the time of male authority
Women often work hard on the canvas frame.
"My family told me to study, wanting to punish my children.
Have to wait until the old people are not home"

Never seen mother hair with flowers
People only wash their hair with perilla leaves and grapefruit leaves
Dad went to the army and came home for half an hour.
Knowing his wife was good, he still smiled despite being displeased.

Now is the season of pure grapefruit flowers
Mom now sits on the sofa instead of grandpa.
The duckweed bridge still floats in my mind
Grapefruit flowers remind me of my mother's white shirt from the past...