Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo. Eucalypt.
My Tanka published in Eucalypt.
I balance
loneliness with
liberty--
the sky so blue
this Vernal Equinox Day
five years now
since I sat there
with mother
supping on noodles
flavered with citron
the sea canyon
is silently weeping
as I cross
concealing my sickness
within me
sometimes I wish for
shoulders to lean against--
there's a bitter wind
like the delivery of letters
after my death
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