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five tanka\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n bomb threat<\/p>\n at the Wal-mart\u2014<\/p>\n customers and associates<\/p>\n shivering under<\/p>\n the autumn sky<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n kisses<\/p>\n like bruises<\/p>\n and the<\/p>\n dark shadow<\/p>\n of memory<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n waking at<\/p>\n my accustomed hour,<\/p>\n a dream of rain<\/p>\n still damp on the bark<\/p>\n of autumn trees<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n having lost<\/p>\n her keys,<\/p>\n my daughter<\/p>\n comes tapping<\/p>\n at my morning window<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I could<\/p>\n give you the stars<\/p>\n in winter,<\/p>\n if only you would<\/p>\n step outside<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n M. Kei<\/strong> is a tall ship sailor and award-winning poet. He is the editor-in-chief of Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka<\/em>, and the author of Slow Motion : The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack <\/em>(Recommend Reading by the Chesapeake Bay Project). He is the editor of Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka<\/em> and compiler of the Bibliography of English-Language Tanka<\/em>. He has published over 1500 tanka poems. He also published a gay Asian-themed fantasy novel, Fire Dragon.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" five tanka\u00a0 bomb threat at the Wal-mart\u2014 customers and associates shivering under the autumn sky kisses like bruises and the dark shadow of memory waking at my accustomed hour, a dream of rain still damp on the bark of autumn trees having lost her keys, my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24028,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions\/24028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}