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Tag Archives: tanka

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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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 7, On cleaning out my father’s house

April 7, 2018

How it is that it comes to this — that all that matters is clean, deathly clean? And yet we …

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Day 6

April 6, 2018

Here we are again — you settled under light me lost in deep dark. I find your eyes cast down, …

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Day 5

April 5, 2018

after a long day of pitched battles on every side I hunger to be in heaven sitting down on the …

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Day 4

April 4, 2018

let us begin here, at the temple of helplessness, to grieve proper the angels caught unawares, before awareness even

Day 3

April 3, 2018

trucks on the freeway, flat land stretched out beyond i find myself looking out a window between my world and …

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Day 2

April 2, 2018

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

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Day 1

April 1, 2018

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

7/15

July 17, 2016

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

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