Introduction to tinywords issue 11.3
Welcome! tinywords 11.3, the “journeys” issue, is about to begin. Intro by guest editor Kathe L. Palka.
Author: Kathe L. Palka
Kathe lives near Flemington, New Jersey together with her husband of 42 years, Joseph and their beloved Welsh Pembroke corgi Garth. She writes in both free verse and Japanese forms. Together with Peter Newton, she co-edits the daily online micro-poetry journal T I N Y W O R D S.
teaching my sons
to skip river stones
ripples converge
July 5th—
ants darken the edge
of a dropped chip
fireworks at twilight forsythia
lovers’ moon–
a cicada leaves its shell
on the fence post
nor’easter–
scent of the river
rising
dropping my dog off
at the kennel her whine
amid all the barks
tanka
the voice
of a wrong number
for a moment
wishing I was the daughter
she’s trying to reach
summer T-ball —
between batters outfielders
chase butterflies
autumn wind —
looking up for a fly ball
lost in falling leaves