Publicized in Tanka Society of America: Mariko Kitakubo

Please
don't bring your children
offshore at Fukusima --
in the Summer reflections
so many dead eyes

Tanka Cafe, TSA Ribbons Spring/Summer 2016 Vol.12 No.9

Ms. Claire Everett's Tanka Journal, "Skylark," posted the responsive tanka of Ms. Kathabela Wilson, the secretary of TSA, and myself.

Ms. Everett, thank you very much.

 

Threrhold
(Mariko Kitakubo,Japan&Kathabela Wilson,USA)

Finn Air
we cross
the dateline(M)

a leaf through the door
lost again(K)

boomerang
the autumn sky
between my fingers(M)

we pull from both sides
but don't break

the wish bone(K)

when the swing
switches direction(M)

birdsong
we meet

at the clock tower(K)

Selected tanka

Hiroshima
a linden tree shelters
dead children...
cicada songs
surround me

Tanka Cafe

it was
my son’s favorite...
finding
the last pistachio,
the old parfait glass

Selected tanka 

floating lanterns
on the Motoyasu river
in Hiroshima ...
foster Mother
of so many bodies

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