Sunflower Tanka: An Anthology of Tanka, Tanka Prose, & Experimental Tanka

Sunflower Tanka: An Anthology of Tanka, Tanka Prose, & Experimental Tanka, Contributing editors Robbie Cheadle and Colleen M. Chesebro, is now available in print and for Kindle on Amazon

I am honored to have four of my poems included in this volume, the first of what I hope will be many more to come.

Here is one of my poems, a Tanka Puente, which was first published in the 1st Edition of Sunflower Tanka in 2024.

Sweater Weather

deep into autumn

when skies grow early dark, and

sweaters worn again

even trees have changed their garb

and feel the chill of winter

~wise trees stand sleeping in the cold~

winter comes with wrath

wind and snow to lash at us

for loving autumn

the golden months of fallen

leaves, and Indian summers

The bridge, the line between tildes, is a quote from Winter Trees, by

William Carlos Williams.

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The Versesmith