Loneliness seizes night with its teeth
and growls, I'll eat you up
Savoring the bright moon, flowering trees
my Li Po, my wine cup, and my dreams
until daybreak, it picks its teeth
with the thin threads of faint sunlight
Winter 2010 issue of Rust+Moth
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...
