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tanka (black body unalived)

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- June 21, 2024

near Golstrum's convenience store—
another black body unalived, another mother's grief

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- October 20, 2024

i know nothing about flowers or snowy mountains ... let me peer into a human's darkness a cool morning when i leave the job-site "we miss you Sandy. we miss your turns of phrase" passing an overturned park bench bits of litter... this tenement life is something else was told that love is the ripening of peaches... climbing into a cool bed nothing but the whiteness of a dream mid-Fall moon sugary white i too want to glow with an unearthly inner light passing the bus stop tonight a homeless woman adjusts and re-adjusts her shopping cart trading emails with that Norwich woman what do we do with these broken lives we've been given the 'somethingness' of this life how quickly i pour minutiae into oblong shaped tanka standing on the balcony wrapped up in a thin robe smoking a cheap Black & Mild Samantha Sang crooning about emotions the Bee Gees accompany my cup of tepid coffee no man to w...

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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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