Category: Tanka

• Day 2

  tiny pools of snow along wind-battered off-ramp — tired gas station among the rows of corn stalks — I count each gust, each bluster

  Jenifer

  April 2, 2018

  Tanka

  highway, Memory, NaPoWriMo, poetry, prairie, tanka

• Day 1

  every tanka has already been written we sing the rules of counterpoint, seek to replay our past

  Jenifer

  April 1, 2018

  Tanka

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Early morning on Lake Shore Drive

  maze of brown at the center, trees empty of leaves, row after row stretching to scattered hazel edging the lake, its soft fog settled, tissue-papers, still, grey, jade mist, dull pearl, kingdom come

  Jenifer

  February 25, 2017

  Chicago, Grief, Lake/ocean, Muse, Nature, Tanka

  poetry

• Wondrous grit of life

  o’ wondrous pain, illuminating discomfort — how you have painted this earth to suit your ease, the slow swing of your step it is perhaps a sign of your privilege that you praise cuts and bruises to small children who do not know to defend your princess could not sleep with even a pea under…

  Jenifer

  November 4, 2016

  Death, Dying, From Hafiz, Grief, Love, Mother, Muse, Pain, Tanka, Violence

  poetry

• 7/15

  blue jay caws swell the faraway echo, drawing us near our sandy bluff — breezes wrap, spin us round, return us round

  Jenifer

  July 17, 2016

  Meditation, Memory, Muse, Pentwater, Tanka, Yoga

  poetry, tanka

• Conversations with my mother, now long-dead

  I write to you everyday and each night in my mind — out of sight, out of love, out of repetition. Wearing grooves through stone along the road, my words think they can erase the first set and grind rather new ones or wipe them out altogether, letting me slide free off these memories, into…

  Jenifer

  June 9, 2016

  Family, Grand tanka, Grief, Love, Memory, Mother, Muse, Tanka

  Grand tanka, poetry