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

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