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Tanka
 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Howard, US

 

deep autumn
red and gold leaves
swirl about the forest

a gypsy dance
fiddle and mandola
 

 

cedar waxwings
swoop overhead
how beautiful I think
until I hear them screeching
in the mulberry trees

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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