Issue 5 – June 2026 – Tanka Page 2

just when life

feels too mundane

the young man

with blue rinse through his hair

smiles at me

Anne Curran, New Zealand

sunlight through prisms

dangling from the chandelier

a visible spectrum

history won’t be kind

to this administration

Cherie Hunter Day, USA

late light

dust in the window -

I write my name

then

wipe it away

David Anson Lee, USA

the feather

of a great horned owl

fluttering

between my fingers

as if I too might fly

Jenny Ward Angyal, USA

the first east wind 

up and over the cyan mountains 

the crow’s hardness 

into the softness 

of the red pines 

Joshua St. Claire, USA

the green sheen

of a peahen's breast feather

still shimmers

between the brittle pages

of my decades-old diary

Sally Biggar, USA

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