the 37th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences
the harvest moon
meets me at the window...
echoes
of Li Po's laughter
in the corner of my mind
Atlas Poetica, 15, 2013
Poetic Musing: Blooms and Smoke Tanka by Beverley George
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you gaze at blooms
of black-boughed cherry trees
I am entranced
by the smoke of cooking-fires
drifting up through sturdy pines
*George Empty Garden*, 2006
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