Larry Kimmel
Larry Kimmel's tanka have appeared
in Canada and England as well as the USA. He
has been a frequent winner of the Tanka Splendor
Award, as well as having appeared in Hummingbird,
Lynx, Raw Nervz Haiku, American Tanka, Woodnotes,
Poetry in the Light, still, dew-on-line, bottle
rockets, Nor' Easter and others, as well as the
anthology How to Haiku (Tuttle Press). Having
begun as a haiku poet, Kimmel says that he has
more and more leaned toward tanka as it suits
his subjective and lyrical needs.
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on threadbare pasture,
goldenrod and queen anne's lace
cast long shadows . . .
i never thought there'd come a day
you'd not be here
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again
the forsythia
and still
i'm playing solitaire
with a deck one card short
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on the kitchen table
daisies
in a green bottle
all i need
everything i want
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sweet scent of lilacs
i watch a bee question cluster
after cluster
this endless ache for intimacy
what good is it?
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stark from the shower
to answer the phone,
she dons a robe
of the finest distance . . .
the girl with spring desire.
Lynx: Vol. XI: no. 1, 1996
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