Issue 6 – September 2026 – Tanka Doha 2


letters to Mother
from across the globe 
by those who visited home . . .
my brother hands me 
a manila envelope

reading papery pages 
in gentle blue cursive
Delhi in the sixties 
       how migrating birds find
       cheer in a foreign land

Rupa Anand, India






mother’s terrarium                                                                                                
crowded with light-starved plants
on my honeymoon
I gather pebbles and shells
against her dying


          unintended       
          the baby grows
          clapping
          starfish hands
          toward the water

Jo McInerney, Australia




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