the length of yearning
is an ocean long
I measure
with its dewy arm
the size of loneliness
is ten by ten (square feet)
I commune
with its dark eyes
above my attic, hunger moon
smells like a rotten orange
inside my head, yesterday
whispers a thousand falling petals
Anthologized in Island Mists published by Poetry Institute of Canada
One Man's Maple Moon: Heated Bodies Tanka by Jane Reichhold
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*English Original*
almond nails
pressed into brown skin
a faint perfume
of two heated bodies
touching light as petals
*A Gift of Tanka*, 1990
Jane Reic...