Publicized in Tanka Society of America: Mariko Kitakubo

Selected Tanka

invisible
a lyrebird is crying
abandon
abandon
the world of mankind
(Previously published in Japanese in Kadokawa Tanka Sept.2005)

comparing
tones of the wind chimes--
gently
a blue butterfly
brushes my earlobe

Selected Tanka

my boy is growing
to look like my father
who abandoned me--
I try not to mind
God's carelessness

Tanca Cafe-theme: The Sixth Sense

a wagtail
is pecking pebbles
on the river bank--
with you,in you,I spend
your death anniversary

Tanka Cafe: Theme: Transience

I'll leave
my memories of love
to float
on the tides
of the sargasso sea

Tanka Cafe Theme: Epiphany

is he an evil spirit
or a god,
that handsome Masai boy--
his gleaming body
has the gloss of silk

Selected Tanka

we go back
back to the scarlet DNA
of original sin
all the way to the womb
of Cain's mother, Eve

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