UNDERTOW TANKA REVIEW ISSUE 9 December 2016

UNDERTOW TANKA REVIEW

ISSUE 9
December 2016

HAIKU

Valle de la Luna

by

Remedios Varo

1950

suddenly more beautiful than the mountains - bike tied to a railing

my lost earring      her lost mind         my mom on the phone

what's lost        what's found     afternoon calm

          ―Miriam Sagan

sneakers hanging  from a telephone wire -waning moon

black dot         in all that blue         caws

hypnagogic lights behind my eyelids - silence on Lama Mountain

―Miriam Sagan

meadow grasses bent         in a question mark         I can answer

new chipmunks chase      each others' tails - I puzzle        out the poem

tattooed girl draws the mountain, her childhood         among rivers

          ―Miriam Sagan

sea-sky roars

in the curves of

whales

twilight stream

the first bend

on the star

night stalker

a hunger moon

follows me

crow moon

we follow our shadows

into the dusk

―Marth Magenta

dusk dims a notch, there

in the darkening mirror, the moon

enameled on the pond

sycamore tree, bark

peeling & patched like camouflage--

who you hiding from?

without looking up

he lay down a poem, her dress

dew-drenched still clung

full moon, tiny sparks

in fresh snow, the stick I step on

echoes somewhere else

―Roger W. Hecht

TANKA

 Alegoría del invierno

by

Remedios Varo

1948

they dragged me

to view the body

my sister

no longer larger

than her shortened life

that dream

I long to have again

the one

where I grew lamina

and my breath was fire

I find

white begonias

at my door

in pogonip fog

the vague shape of you

          ―Debbie Strange

lighting

his way

to the heavens ...

the candle beside

his portrait

―David He

hiding in clouds 

day moon mimics me 

night moon stalks me 

her penetrating radiance 

leaves me naked 

― Martha Magenta

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