finally, I tell Loneliness
I’m leaving you
she curls up in bed
heaves a groan of despair
May 2010 issue of Four and Twenty
One Man's Maple Moon: Fruit Tanka by Kala Ramesh
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*English Original*
mother laments
being old and bent
I see her
as a curved branch
laden with fruit
*the unseen arc*, 2017
Kala Ramesh
*Chinese Tran...
