she gave me
every reason under the stars
except the real one . . .
her smile frozen forever
in our honeymoon photo
Published in A Hundred Gourds, 1:2, March 2012
To the Lighthouse: Sensing Tanka: Perceiving Life Beyond the Ordinary
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(First presented by David Terelinck at Bowerbird Tanka Group meeting #6,
March 20 2011 and reprinted by kind permission of the author)
Much excellent tanka...
