After a cascade of showers
slanting sunlight slips into my room
Followed by a swarm of flies
buzzing around like aimless tourists
Alone, I have nothing to do but
become their tour guide
September, 2009 issue of Word Catalyst
To the Lighthouse: Leaping Tanka
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Leaping tanka is a subgenre of* leaping poetry as defined by Robert Bly as
“a long floating leap from the conscious to the unconscious and back again,
a le...