Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo. Eucalypt.
My Tanka published in Eucalypt.
maybe
I can believe
in destiny --
spring rain reads
my outstretched palm
(ひと滴の雨にうるめる運命を信じてもみむ 春のてのひら)
this havest moon
sails beyond time and space...
there is no border
between life and death
for those I have truly loved
the days
of the end of my life
will come --
a cat is yawning
in the ruined village g