The Heron’s Nest, Volume XXI, Number 3: September 2019
dementia
the soft clay begins
to harden
Category Archives: Mary Kendall poetry
Three Tanka in Gusts
Three tanka were published in the last issue of
Gusts, Contemporary Tanka No. 30, Fall/Winter 2019
as Geminids flit by
in the inky darkness
I pull your jacket tight
around myself
. . . all I have left
∼ ∼ ∼
ripeness
bears its own burden . . .
fragrant peaches
dangle low
bruises a breath away
∼ ∼ ∼
in old growth grass
a newborn fawn
wobbles on spindly legs –
a sure reminder
how brief a season is
Three in Kokako 31
KOKAKO 31 , 2019, a journal of the New Zealand Poetry Society
first apricots
the baby’s soft breath
in my ear
~
moonflower
night after night
that same dream
~
barely a whisper
between daylight
and nightfall
when shadows
hide in darkness
Chasing the night
2019 Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology (A Moment’s Longing):
chasing the night—
a falling blossom
graces my tea
Powerless (two senryu)
Prune Juice, Journal of Senryu, Kyoka, Haibun & Haiga
Issue #28, July 2019
powerless
neighbors mingle
after the storm
~
our gods
stand between us
total eclipse
All we left unsaid . . .
Two senryu and one haiga are in the July issue of Failed Haiku.
Failed Haiku, A Journal of English Senryu
Volume 4, Issue 43
July 2019
abandoned nest
four blue eggs
but no answers
~
vagrant fog
a distant train
slows the night
~
A Poet in Time 