Issue 6 – September 2026 – Tanka Page 4
a plastic button
deep inside the drawer
clutching pink
against the gaping hole
in father’s sweater
Vaishnavi Ramaswamy, India
five years gone
I will always
be
your
daughter
Jennifer Gurney, USA
beginning
morning tai-chi class
veteran paratroopers
fight to raise their feet
off the ground
Charles L. Trammell, USA
the woman in black
a slap on my childhood
a step backward
slowly
looking away from the cross
Nicholas Gentile, USA
far from
Glastonbury's
Pyramid Stage . . .
your army surplus tent
blown away
Helen Buckingham, UK
crows
the first to land
on a roadside carcass
the nasty business
of loan sharks
Edward Dewar, Canada
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