how casually
a brown bird
catches a butterfly
in its beak
and flies away

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Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton

Marilyn Hazelton is editor of red lights, an international tanka journal, where tradition and innovation meet. Rostered as a teaching poet with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, her work includes residencies in France, Japan and Morocco.

7 thoughts on “”

  1. an ant
    crawls up the swamp maple
    and then down

    Love your tanka, Marilyn. How casually indeed all of life in this hurricane swirling around us.

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