Publicized in Tanka Society of America: Mariko Kitakubo

Tanka Cafe Theme:Vegetables

quietly
in a corner of the kitchen
I'd like to sprout--
in order to escape
from the potato masher

Selected Tanka

a melody
of the Galaxy--
I listen
for memories that left
with a shooting star

what might gad
be trying to tell us--
in the laboratory
internal organs infected
painlessly

like a sky
studded all over
with opals,
he died
at the age of forty-two

Tanka Cafe: Theme: Winter Warmth

to warm
there is plum sake--
contemplating
the first half of my life
I wander back here

Selected Tanka

though advised
to have surgery
I want
to stay a woman--
so faint
the song of the stream

Tanka Cafe：the theme of "visiting"

as her death anniversary nears,
I sit beside my memories--
through the evening
the lovely voice
of a tsukutsuku cicada

Selecded Tanka

finding solace
in the impossible
here I am
in a bubble bath
perfumed with green forest

Autumn,
a sobbing violin--
when night falls
oh, Mother,please
let me weep

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