UNDERTOW TANKA REVIEW ISSUE 8 - May 2016

UNDERTOW TANKA REVIEW ISSUE 8

 painting by Joan Miro -  20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983

her glassy eyes

a glacier melting for ages

her face

furrowed with doubts

she cleans loose feathers all day

—   Arunansu Bandyopadhyay  

scraps of lace

behind old windows

footfalls echo

we are bound by webs

of good intentions

—   Debbie Strange

on the verge

of here and hereafter

surely we

are not the only ones

with revenant hearts

—   Debbie Strange

silent secrets soak

your panties as they slip

below your thighs,

earthy-scented, ebbing

like a tidal pool at dawn

—   Lee Todd Lacks

colors of dawn

shimmering on the lake...

out of darkness

the answers to questions

I never knew I had

                       

—   Rebecca Drouilhet

under the palm tree

clusters of brown mushrooms

the yellow stir

of colored paper boats

afloat in moonlit puddle

—   Precious Oboh

magically, I drift away

soaked in the music of each

drop of rain-

a tall elephant grass

did obeisance

—   Precious Oboh

Three years in jail

everything changes, except

Mr. Noodles

—   Wayne Ray

the waxing moon

slices through the horizon —

crescent earthshine

—   Kim Peter Kovac

still no wind

this long winter

solitary bird

—   Wayne Ray

who will remember

our sandcastle lives...

the winter sea

                                  

—   Rebecca Drouilhet

last rites         

the yawning depth of night

seals over

—   Devin Harrison

in half lotus

while on the train

my passing thoughts

—   Devin Harrison

apartheid...

a zebra

licking only one stripe

—   Virgil Babb










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