our faces reflected
in The Virgin of the Milk...
has she imagined
a child clamping
onto her breast at 3 am?
VerseWrights, April 16, 2013
One Man's Maple Moon: Beast and Cherry Blossoms Tanka by Fumi Saito
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*English Original*
long dead
the bones of a beast
decaying tonight
I am nearly choked
as cherry blossoms are falling
*White Letter Poems*, 1998
Fumi Saito...