all that remains
of my fifteen-year
married life:
finger smudges
on a dust-covered box
Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta
私の15年の
結婚生活に
残っているもの全て:
指がにじむ
ほこりで覆われた箱の上で
Akita International Haiku Network, March 30, 2019
A Room of My Own: Wooden Jesus Tanka
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slanted sunlight
reaches Wooden Jesus on the cross
I close my eyes
... yet nothing whatever emerges
in my mind or my heart
FYI: This tanka could be read as...