fly like geese
never gaze back
at your homeland
but carry it
in your heart
Special Feature section, entitled 25 Tanka for Children, of Atlas Poetica
One Man's Maple Moon: Heated Bodies Tanka by Jane Reichhold
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*English Original*
almond nails
pressed into brown skin
a faint perfume
of two heated bodies
touching light as petals
*A Gift of Tanka*, 1990
Jane Reic...