quail call
the blind setter
frozen on point
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.
garage sale
a rusty coffee can
full of pennies
old vinyls
the wobble
(The above is a tan renga written by Billie Dee, San Miguel, New Mexico, USA and Richard L.
the indigo
of approaching dawn
last rites
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)
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
jet lag
she unravels
his half-finished sweater
mockingbird an octave shy of the moon