Skylark, Vol. 6, Number 1, Summer 2018

Honoured to have my photograph chosen for Skylark's inaugural cover contest:

Individual kyoka and tanka:

macular

degeneration

I see

more clearly now

than ever before

a mirage

of mountains beckons

us homeward

we don't know their names,

but they know ours

they have

scarcely enough

to survive

and yet, this music

under the bridge

Selected Tanka Sequence for Another Chance to See Feature

Going Back

big sky morning

ancestral homesteads

felled by wind

hollow bones whistling

a song I used to know

barrelling

down washboard roads

between fields

plumes of the past lingering

on all I left behind

at day's end

light beams splintering

across shorn fields

on this moonless night

I, too, am camouflaged

Note: Going Back was first published in Ribbons, Volume 11, Number 3, Fall 2015