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senryu (1960's)

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- April 08, 2024

tenement living in 1960's, Jim Crow a great terror...

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tanku (washing hair)

- June 29, 2024

washing hair— silence

monotanka (visiting a bathhouse)

- May 07, 2024

not visiting a bathhouse, reading zuihitsu on my day off...another expresso tastes slightly off

tanka/monotanka (sedoka) collection

- November 12, 2024

all this hotel laughter behind me hearing the rushing of dark waters criticized by a white guy for speaking Ebonics without any shame more than one argument about Black English... there will be no more code switching by me bite into a crisp apple his pungent coffee hides his contempt at my Southern drawl "King's English" and Vernaculars ... when did speech become so elitist early this morning a glass of peach schnapps... some days i just dont give a f*ck anymore (sedoka)) will i be crucified for speaking in all my Blackness... "oh you speak so well" 'for a Black man' i say to myself already my body is tired with fatigue—before work, another swig of flavored vodka lust sunk deep inside me, Black men White men Mixed men and still this...foreboding not hungry yet starving and...a fifteen minute bus ride to work seems like a trip to hell beautiful devils ...

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Shōnin: Orrin Préjean, from Port Arthur, Texas, came to English Language Short Poetry around 2006. In 2013 he began writing tanka and has since published two collections. Orrin writing under the penname, ¨Shōnin¨ now focuses on the history and current practices of senryu and is a senryu poet with his first ebook collection of senryu titled “October´s Kid¨ followed by ¨Retweets,¨ (with B.A. France) and ¨Dewdrop World.¨

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