Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo. Article details.
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joined together by his umbilical cord
I hold my son-then
all the stars in heaven
fall down on me
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in a pool of sun
rusted railroad tracks--
those teenage years
like a fever
galloped through me
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as they go past
those car wheels sound like
they're dragging
my weekend feeling
away by its tail