you oftentimes speak
of bad spelling…
I imagine
a worm wiggling
in the sand
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trimming
her eyebrow
hair by hair…
the moon crescent draws
nearer
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Ali Znaidi (b.1977) lives in
Redeyef, Tunisia. He is the author of several chapbooks, including Experimental
Ruminations (Fowlpox Press, 2012), Moon’s Cloth Embroidered
with Poems (Origami Poems Project, 2012), Bye, Donna Summer! (Fowlpox
Press, 2014), Taste of the Edge (Kind of a Hurricane Press,
2014), and Mathemaku x5 (Spacecraft Press, 2015). For more details,
you can visit his blog at –aliznaidi.blogspot.com and follow him on Twitter @AliZnaidi.
More than just nice! Enjoyed your second tanka with its imagery and mystery. I look forward to more of your work. Ralph
ReplyDeleteBoth tanka are lovely, Ali, especially the second. Regards // paul
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