I’m sitting looking out at a damp day, in an unusually warm February.  This month is a time it normally snows, and the cold and gray seems to seep through the pores of the skin.

There are some dreams that keep me going.

The superlative journal of Triveni Haikai India, haikuKATHA which publishes some of the finest haikai poetry in the world. Triveni has excellent workshopping forums for different haikai forms, like haiku, tanka, haibun etc. That’s the place I’m learning tanka. Of course since I am merely a student, I’m so honored that a tanka of mine is published in the January 2024 issue.

Here is the tanka, many thanks to the editors!