mockingbird an octave shy of the moon
Author: Billie Dee
Billie Dee is the former Poet Laureate of the U.S. National Library Service. A retired health care worker, she earned her doctorate at U.C. Irvine, did post-doc training at U.C. San Diego. Although she writes in a variety of forms, her primary focus is Japaniform poetry. A native Californian, she now lives in the Chihuahuan Desert with her family and a betta fish named Ramon. Billie publishes online and off.
jet lag
she unravels
his half-finished sweater
old chihuahua
what can you teach me
about the dew
all I see are moonsets
spread over the morning field
(Note: This is a tan renga by Kala Ramesh and Billie
sequoia seeds
how we save ourselves
for later
the dawn in each drop
of bracken dew
(Tan renga, a form of linked verse, by Kath Abela Wilson and Billie Dee)
the indigo
of approaching dawn
last rites