Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo. Article details.
Tanka Society of America Anthology "Sixty Sunflowers"
all you men
who have flown from me--
I feel you
less as sea winds,more as
glints of light on the waves
high up
in the bare tree
winter has come
bringing with it
letters for the deceased
one's life
can not more be entrusted
to another
than can the timing
of a perfect soft-boiled egg