Haiga Archive
11 July 2009
my breath
a whimper
from bracken shadows—
the short life of a moth
in tangled moss
Tanka from Huge Blue (Leaf Press, 2009); a version of this tanka first appeared in Wisteria, Iss. 13, 2009.
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