Issue 2 - September 2025 - Tanka page 10

jumping
at a tiny weed
of medusa head
my fear of snakes
after the bite

Jackie Chou, USA


abandoned restaurant
the leatherette stools
on their chrome legs
wait for bottoms
that will never arrive

David Oates, USA

still
searching
for something —
annuals grown leggy
in the plum tree’s shade

Alan Peat, UK

how it bothers me
the little bite
of that ant
another pain
I can't get rid of

Deborah Karl-Brandt, Germany

the morning after the missiles
a few fires
a cloud of butterflies
& some ducks
that remain just ducks

A A Marcoff, UK

Newfoundland fog
obscures the morning outlines
of the harbor
of boats
of my way forward

Susan Weaver, USA

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