Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Waka Society of America, Petals Journal (Waka in English), Premier Edition, May 2025

Honoured to have the following waka selected by the editor, an'ya, for the inaugural issue of Petals:


I watched you
riding over bare hills
toward home
your palomino's mane
sifting the last sunrays


this glass bowl
of mollusc fragments
you showed me
how to catch the light
and how to let it go


chinook winds
keening your name
I am stung
by gusts of grief
and helplessness


pale bodies
glistening with sand
and water
the skin of our youth
sculpted by sunlight

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