Issue 2 - September 2025 - Tanka page 5

we're talking about
how the cotton grass sways
and loves the peatlands
we are all carnivorous
eating each other again

Fatma Zohra Habis, Algeria

a spilled drink
on the tablecloth
you laugh it off
while I drown
in what I can’t say

C.X. Turner, UK

seagulls screaming
in a cheap painting -
a few sailors
silently await
the therapist's arrival

Mircea Moldovan, Romania

the fledglings
with their incessant chatter
gone now,
and I, as close to alone
as I’ve ever been

Reid Hepworth, Canada

calling
and calling and calling
again
yet again yet again—
a sky of seagulls

Richard Tice, USA

a bridge above the river
connects me
with my demons
even when I pretend
that I don’t see them

Boryana Boteva, Bulgaria

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