what is this place, with its defensive bunkers on every rise? lasting vestiges of war, so unlike my childhood home.
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Owl? Moth? Owl-Moth [Tanka]
on a tree, the moth looks like a pair of eyes framed in a hidey-hole. on marble steps, the moth just looks like a moth.
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Imposing Clouds [Tanka]
imposing clouds seem to hover over the palace, but then one sees the drift, and they are drifting nearer.
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Living Backwards [Tanka]
young red leaf, on a sapling in Spring, slowly grows green. doesn't it know it should start green, and turn red in the Fall?
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Missing Kittens [Tanka]
a momma cat mews many times to its missing kittens. with each unanswered call, momma grows more insistent.
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Crow Sound [Tanka]
the sharp caw of a crow triggers a monk's enlightenment. a second crow responds. a sailor doesn't look up.
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Garden Lizard [Tanka]
a garden lizard can't resolve whether to scurry, or to be master of all that it surveys?
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Advancing Forest [Tanka]
the forest stays low, creeping up the valley: like advancing forces, but that hill isn't taken -- season after season.
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Unimpressed [Tanka]
a stately building stands beside the river, commanding the eye. but that ancient river remains unimpressed.
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Seed Spitting Deity [Tanka]
morning offering with a melon wedge; a bas-relief face seems to have bitten a chunk, and is prepared to spit seeds.
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