my nephew
doesn't let me hold his hand
first day of spring
Finalist, the 2010 Paper Wasp Jack Stamm Haiku Competition
published in Paper Wasp, 17: 2, June 2011
and anthologized in Moonrise and Bare Hills
One Man's Maple Moon: Welcoming Warmth Tanka by Thelma Mariano
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*English Original*
across the darkness
lights on the far shore beam
a welcoming warmth
like the friends and lovers
we will meet by reaching out
Thelma Mari...