bare maple tree
standing on the front lawn…
with no one around
I speak to it
in my mother tongue
2011 "Best of the Best" Poetry Award (Tanka Category)
A Room of My Own: Lingering Smell Tanka
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, LX: "suicide deaths"
the lingering smell
of blood-stained body parts
scattered everywhere
another soldier dies
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