Tanka--By Elizabeth Howard--United States

feeling my age

until I look up

puffy white clouds, blue sky--

child-like, I trace a giant . . .

and a fire-breathing dragon

Elizabeth Howard lives in Crossville, Tennessee. She writes poetry and fiction. Her poems have appeared in Comstock Review, Big Muddy, Appalachian Heritage, Cold Mountain Review, Poem, Still, Mobius, Now & Then, Slant, and other journals.