published in Eucalypt: Mariko Kitakubo

Mariko Kitakubo Profile

Mariko Kitakubo

Born in Tokyo.
Living in Mitaka-city, Tokyo
Membership
Japan Writers' Association,
Japan PEN Club,
Association of Contemporary Tanka Poets,
Japan Tanka Poets' Society,
Kokoro-No-Hana,
Tanka Society of America.
Tan-Ku Co-Founder
Tan-Ku Association, president

In commemoration of
15 years of tanka reading
The Latest Tanka Sequence
Original Tanka presented at
Spoken World Live

Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo. Eucalypt.

My Tanka published in Eucalypt.

rain drops
of the constellation,
a water clock
sounding beyond
an avenue of cedars

how silent
the light rain
of radiation--
we continue searching
for his parents' bodies

Issue 10,2011

moonlit night
in the bamboo forest
child god
transforms into a badger
to summon his mother

Issue 11, 2011

after the bitterness
against my late father
a longing
comes to me--
sorrowful pendulum