midnight moon
hanging low in the sky
on the way home
a shadow leads me
into my fortieth year
Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta
真夜中の月
空に低くかかっている
帰宅途中に
影が私を導いていく
私の40年目に
Akita International Haiku Network, March 30, 2019
A Room of My Own: Toy Forest Tanka
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, CC: "US-made bombs"
a toy forest
in his biscuit tin ...
the boy holds it tight
as US-made bombs drop
silencing ...
