Tanka: Watching

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The relentless clock
measures the background chatter
each moment is now
but I’m watcher of the stream
sitting on eternal banks

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Tanka: Which Way The Wind?

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Where is this heading?
Where have I been before this?
Some things I don’t know
Wind causes the flag to wave
but no one can see the wind

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Tanka: Mercury Ascends

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Go spring heeled Hermes
chase Phoebus around the sky
my functioning mind
Bless you for your position
when I was hurled in this world

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Tanka: Cool at Dawn

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Awake at half three
in the night’s listless silence
Birdsong greets the light
of imperceptible dawn
into the fresh cooling room

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