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