rejection emails
pile up like snowflakes...
in my New Year dream
a smile on Li Po's face
as he reads my poetry
Now This: Contemporary Poems of Beginnings, Renewals and Firsts, 2012
One Man's Maple Moon: Autumn Wind Tanka by Thelma Mariano
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*English Original*
treetops sway
in a sudden autumn wind
too fierce to last
so, too, I bend tonight
to the passion in yo...
