Tanka--By Marilyn Fleming--United States

deep in the woods

my face in my hands

I speak to

the hollowed out tree—

my red heartwood bared

Bamboo Hut, May 2016

one red apple

clings to a naked branch

winter coming on

long after it’s over

still hanging by a thread

Cattails, May 2016

downward facing dog

in the shade of the plum—

picking season

I pull up the ladder

limbs resting for a bit

Gogoyshi, Monthly 2015

Marilyn Fleming was born and raised on a farm in Wisconsin. She has a special

interest in oriental forms of poetry. <marilynflemingpoet.wordpress.com>