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Six Tanka
by Pamela A. Babusci
her love was voiceless-
finding a note i gave
my mother
when i was eight
hidden in her prayer book
Modern English Tanka Summer 2008
as you undress me
you can never remove
all my childhood wounds
i keep hidden
even from myself
Lynx 1995
i am in a funk
turquoise, sapphire, indigo
azure & cobalt
out of my skin
out of my bones blue
Gusts fall/winter 2012
the intense white
of chrysanthemums
while making love
i become
a thousand petals
Ribbons Fall 2009
autumn of my life
motherless, fatherless
childless
i gather citron stars
tether them to my heart
Ribbons 2013
pure moonlight‐
three years post cancer
the long surgical scar
fading into the belly
of my womanhood
Skylark 1:2 2013
All six tanka appear in A Solitary Woman 2013
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