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Category Archives: Tanka

Seven attempts to settle my mind

April 24, 2020

i. my mind chews its way through each of my lessons spitting back what the animal dislikes savoring its own …

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Old elm (revised)

April 14, 2020

Abandoned farmhouse, graying outbuildings. In your final winter, you stood with empty, cracking branches to tell us plain that your …

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As we begin

April 3, 2020

rain falls from fog through sleeping branches (frail, broken sticks?), soaks with slippery ease into soil to restore them Note: …

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Tanka for working from home

March 23, 2020

In interesting times, I write at my son’s old desk cut into his closet stuffed with childhood remnants curse, avalanche …

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To my Aunt Cathy

March 18, 2019

Originally posted on Poems from in between:
It was as we played king of the raft — bobbing the way it did, always…

My father’s spade

September 5, 2018

leaning on a box in my cluttered breezeway my father’s spade pants, grip worn smooth, tail twitching, eager for his …

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Day 30

April 30, 2018

you would think when walking through woods at night that we’d stumble — but instead we learn to find a …

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Day 29

April 29, 2018

walking through woods in bare moonlight – shade over shade, black within black – I see what cannot be seen …

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Day 28: And the greatest of these

April 28, 2018

is love — which is not really fair to say, for the three intertwine when you sit here, ready, and …

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Day 27

April 27, 2018

a night walk is never simple – shafts of gray light peel back tree bark and find squirrels opining through …

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