the 21st tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences
unemployed
I stay drunk on writing
love poetry
maple leaves falling
upon maple leaves...
Atlas Poetica, 15, 2013
Reading More and Writing Better: 17-Year-Old Me Tanka
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written for World Book Day
a photo slips
from *The Catcher in the Rye*
17-year-old me
not afraid of anyone
except myself
FYI: This tanka could be read as ...