Some of My Recent Tanka in Presence

some boys
swing jumping
onto a discarded mattress ...
the empty pool
behind the fence


Presence 63 (March 2019)



burnt-out streetlights
and the absence ...
I step aside
to a group
cursing the moon


Presence 64(July 2019)



how do we know
we are not already dead ...
autumn leaves
that reappear
after the snowmelt

Presence 65(November 2019)