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having made it
halfway across, halfway back
I stop and pause
wondering which way
I really want to go
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Published in Eucalypt 32 Tanka, May 2022 Issue
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Tight-Rope Walker by Jean Louis Forain, c. 1885, Art Institute of Chicago
This tanka was inspired by a painting of a tightrope walker:
Tight Rope Walker by Jean Louis Forain, The Art Institute of Chicago
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once I welcomed
the darkening of winter
now I crave
the sweetness of honey,
the buzzing of bees
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Photo: Medical News Today, August 29, 2018
This is the first of two tanka published in:
so many bodies in Bucha,
even more mass graves
are dug and quickly filled
. . . no mourners, no prayers
at the gravesite today
Here are several of my contributions in Brass Bell:
Brass Bell October 2022 / Theme: kitchen haiku
teatime
just water and leaves
you and me
Brass Bell September 2022 / Theme: homeplace
buffalo, new york
we all laugh & tumble off
the long toboggan again
Brass Bell August 2022 / Theme: water
icy rain—
somehow this ache
just won’t leave
washed up
without a song
moon shell
Brass Bell July 2022 / Theme: sound
lyrics long forgotten
the melody always
in my mind
Brass Bell is published on the first day of every month. This delightful haiku journal is beautifully curated by editor/writer, Zee Zehava and can be found here: http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com. Writers are from around the world and some of the finest haiku/senryu writers appear on these pages.
Presence #72, Spring 2022
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winter birds crack seeds
& feast on blocks of suet –
my long morning is spent
polishing old pieces
of silver we rarely use
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Photo by Stauffers of Kissel Hill
Moonbathing 26, Summer 2022
one by one trying
hard to make amends,
I separate fine strands
of webs I’ve made
to hide my mistakes
‘silk’
A Poet in Time 