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Tanka ~ Joanne
Morcom
so
much white hair
in the bathroom sink
can't all be mine
but since I live alone
whose is it?
our street
recently repaved
just spray painted
with misspelled
graffiti
after a glass
of Scotch and water
I start to write
and then stop
for another
brand new earrings
are exactly what I need
on a day like this
but I don't like them
when I get them home
the museum
of natural history
crowded today --
all of us herding
towards the gift shop
young cashier
in the small town store
asks me where
I'm from --
a big city?
if you'd been here
you would have reminded me
about the blue moon --
on my own
I forget to look
unsigned note
on my windshield says
sorry I hit your car
it was an accident
not my fault
Joanne
Morcom's tanka, haiku and haibun have appeared
in a number of online and print publications. She won first prize in
the modern category of the 2001 North American Tanka Contest, and three
of her tanka appeared in Countless Leaves, a print and CD anthology of
the best contest poems. Her tanka have also received several Tanka Splendor
Awards.
A resident of Calgary,
Alberta, she is a regional coordinator for Haiku Canada, and a member
of the Calgary based Magpie Haiku Poets,
who have recently published an anthology of their work titled A
Piece of Egg Shell, with a foreward by Bruce Ross. Contact Joanne at morcomj@telus.net to order a copy.
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