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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

With The Moon

These are tanka I wrote several years ago. They were published on "The Anglo-Japanese Society" website which is no longer accessible.

with the moon 

against the darkness
I start out small 
in just a sliver
of canoe

lost streets

that twist without reason
except to hold
the shadows
of other people's stories

in the anatomy

of a gray feather
barely a spine--
is that all it takes
to travel so lightly

this morning the river

carries the news before
I can write it down
three deer are swimming
towards me

buried in hands

a face tired
of holding itself up
I know not if this church
is for prayer or sorrow